The Long Hunters: Blood Brothers
(2025)(The first book in the Early Frontier Mountain Man series)
A novel by Mike Mackessy
Set in Virginia and Kentucky during the mid-1700s comes a brand new Western frontier epic from Mike Mackessy!
At 12 years old, he accompanies his Da and the neighboring farms to collect salt at the nearby salt lick. On their last day, Shawnee warriors attack the farmers. All but Finn are killed. Showing bravery the warriors did not expect, they spare his life and take Finn prisoner. A week later, the Shawnee trade Finn to a Wea village. Finn spends the next ten years living with The People. He becomes more Indian than white. He learns their ways to hunt, to fight, and to thrive in the Kentucky wilds.
At 22 years old, soldiers force Finn to return to a white man’s life. His assimilation into society is difficult, challenging, and often fiercely rebuffed. Finn lives to tread where no man has walked. He is a trapper, hunter, and a warrior, but more importantly he is an explorer. During his initial encounter with white men, a nervous and inexperienced young man shoots Finn during their introduction, using sign language. The rifle ball passes through Finn and into this man. Finn adopts the man as his blood brother. From there on, the pair hunt, trap, explore, and scout for the militia during the turbulent year of 1777, the Bloody Sevens.
Genre: Western
At 12 years old, he accompanies his Da and the neighboring farms to collect salt at the nearby salt lick. On their last day, Shawnee warriors attack the farmers. All but Finn are killed. Showing bravery the warriors did not expect, they spare his life and take Finn prisoner. A week later, the Shawnee trade Finn to a Wea village. Finn spends the next ten years living with The People. He becomes more Indian than white. He learns their ways to hunt, to fight, and to thrive in the Kentucky wilds.
At 22 years old, soldiers force Finn to return to a white man’s life. His assimilation into society is difficult, challenging, and often fiercely rebuffed. Finn lives to tread where no man has walked. He is a trapper, hunter, and a warrior, but more importantly he is an explorer. During his initial encounter with white men, a nervous and inexperienced young man shoots Finn during their introduction, using sign language. The rifle ball passes through Finn and into this man. Finn adopts the man as his blood brother. From there on, the pair hunt, trap, explore, and scout for the militia during the turbulent year of 1777, the Bloody Sevens.
Genre: Western
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