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The Ghost Deer
Welcome! The Ghost Deer is a Heroic Bow Hunting adventure like no other, set in the western Sawtooth Mountains of Central Idaho, as a cattle ranch boy embarks on a coming-of-age journey to becoming a man.
If you’re looking for a good down home Inspirational Mountain Adventure Survival Story, filled with depth and life lessons like classics such as Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain or Where the Red Fern Grows, with tons of knee slapping comedy, nail-biting action and suspense—you have come to the right place.
Book one of the Sawtooth Legacy Series is a can’t put it down, fun to read aloud, campfire style story about a Legendary White Buck, a boy's love for his Dog, two ruthless Bullies, and a family that pulls together—as thirteen-year-old Tater Thompson faces a mountain filled with mystery, surprise, and danger.
Struggling with hard choices and tough decisions—he learns core values and virtues of courage, sacrifice, integrity and the worth of freedom in an epic tale of sacrifice, love, and doing the right thing even when it's hard.
Overview:
Raised on a cattle ranch near the Sawtooth Mountains in Central Idaho, thirteen-year-old Tater Thompson discovers the Legendary Ghost Deer, a powerful white buck as big as an elk with a massive rack of antlers… and a mysterious past.
He forsakes his family's rough stock heritage of unwavering integrity and courage, giving way to fear, making a bet with two ruthless brothers now threatening to take his best friend—an old Blue Heeler dog named Bandit. Struggling to prove himself a man, he faces unbeatable odds as he embarks on a journey to win his dog's freedom—in a deer hunting survival adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat one minute and laughing the next.
Tater learns to overcome self-doubt and fear as he discovers clues of a secret mountain people and faces life and death struggles against storms, wolves, and a forest of wild animals. He learns fortitude, sacrifice, forgiveness, and reliance on God, testing him to his core—as he never quits, discovering true freedom from the prisons within himself.
The Ghost Deer, Book One of the Sawtooth Legacy Series, is a good, clean, multi-generational family story of courage, persistence, forgiveness, and growth. Welcome on the journey…
If you’re looking for a good down home Inspirational Mountain Adventure Survival Story, filled with depth and life lessons like classics such as Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain or Where the Red Fern Grows, with tons of knee slapping comedy, nail-biting action and suspense—you have come to the right place.
Book one of the Sawtooth Legacy Series is a can’t put it down, fun to read aloud, campfire style story about a Legendary White Buck, a boy's love for his Dog, two ruthless Bullies, and a family that pulls together—as thirteen-year-old Tater Thompson faces a mountain filled with mystery, surprise, and danger.
Struggling with hard choices and tough decisions—he learns core values and virtues of courage, sacrifice, integrity and the worth of freedom in an epic tale of sacrifice, love, and doing the right thing even when it's hard.
Overview:
Raised on a cattle ranch near the Sawtooth Mountains in Central Idaho, thirteen-year-old Tater Thompson discovers the Legendary Ghost Deer, a powerful white buck as big as an elk with a massive rack of antlers… and a mysterious past.
He forsakes his family's rough stock heritage of unwavering integrity and courage, giving way to fear, making a bet with two ruthless brothers now threatening to take his best friend—an old Blue Heeler dog named Bandit. Struggling to prove himself a man, he faces unbeatable odds as he embarks on a journey to win his dog's freedom—in a deer hunting survival adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat one minute and laughing the next.
Tater learns to overcome self-doubt and fear as he discovers clues of a secret mountain people and faces life and death struggles against storms, wolves, and a forest of wild animals. He learns fortitude, sacrifice, forgiveness, and reliance on God, testing him to his core—as he never quits, discovering true freedom from the prisons within himself.
The Ghost Deer, Book One of the Sawtooth Legacy Series, is a good, clean, multi-generational family story of courage, persistence, forgiveness, and growth. Welcome on the journey…
161 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 8, 2022
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February 27, 2024
I have really enjoyed reading this book and will definitely be reading more from this author. I have really liked reading this book because it has good character development and is on a topic that I really enjoyed. I could not put this book down, and it was definitely a page-turner for me. I also really enjoyed this book because it gets you hooked from the very beginning. It also had very good character conflict throughout the story.
There was not much I did not like about this story. I would have liked to know a little more about what happens to the characters' at the end of the story when the conflicts are resolved. This book was very well written, but in some parts of the book, it was hard to imagine what the characters were going through. Overall, I have really enjoyed reading this book and would highly recommend it.
There was not much I did not like about this story. I would have liked to know a little more about what happens to the characters' at the end of the story when the conflicts are resolved. This book was very well written, but in some parts of the book, it was hard to imagine what the characters were going through. Overall, I have really enjoyed reading this book and would highly recommend it.
November 6, 2025
Mostly good!
“I wish this wasn't a scouting trip! I cursed inside, agonizing that my first bow hant was still over two months away.”
“Too busy? You sound just like your father.” His mom said to him.
That’s intense.
“I wish this wasn't a scouting trip! I cursed inside, agonizing that my first bow hant was still over two months away.”
“Too busy? You sound just like your father.” His mom said to him.
That’s intense.
January 15, 2024
It was really good and the deer is really big.
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