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After Looking Back
In September of 1806 the Lewis and Clark Expedition surprisingly returned to the St. Louis waterfront, after being given up for dead for over a year. The tales of the West they brought back inspired a certain kind of young men, like Nils Andersen, to head for the Northern Rocky Mountains.
By 1814, when Nils was 18, the war of 1812 has closed the Northern route, so Nils exaggerated his age a bit and with the help of an old Iroquois-French mountain man, got hired on as his hunter-scout partner for a Sante Fe bound caravan.
Nils finds himself being trained for more than he expected and evolves into something more than he previously knew was necessary. They survive the trip and return to St. Louis with Nils becoming much more like his new friends, the Comanches, along the way.
The war with England was not going well, and Nils and his partner Lebec get drawn into it, resulting in an epic cross-country race, in mid-winter, between a company of 26 British Dragoons mounted on fine cavalry horses, and the two of them riding Missouri Mules, with an all mule packstring.
Nils is finally headed to the Northern Rock Mountains. In a hurry.
By 1814, when Nils was 18, the war of 1812 has closed the Northern route, so Nils exaggerated his age a bit and with the help of an old Iroquois-French mountain man, got hired on as his hunter-scout partner for a Sante Fe bound caravan.
Nils finds himself being trained for more than he expected and evolves into something more than he previously knew was necessary. They survive the trip and return to St. Louis with Nils becoming much more like his new friends, the Comanches, along the way.
The war with England was not going well, and Nils and his partner Lebec get drawn into it, resulting in an epic cross-country race, in mid-winter, between a company of 26 British Dragoons mounted on fine cavalry horses, and the two of them riding Missouri Mules, with an all mule packstring.
Nils is finally headed to the Northern Rock Mountains. In a hurry.
323 pages, Paperback
Published March 15, 2025
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