[Wilderness Double 19] • Perils of the Wind / Mountain Man

Perils of the Wind

 It takes a special breed of man to survive

in the wilds of the American frontier. A man like Nate King has the courage,

the strength and the skills he needs to endure the hardships of the magnificent

Rockies. But the four cutthroats who heard about Nate paying for provisions

with gold don’t plan to make it on their own. They figure they can get Nate’s

gold for themselves. When they kidnap Nate’s younger daughter they think they’ve

struck it rich. They don’t know Nate very well. They don’t know that he’ll do

anything to protect his family. But what Nate doesn’t know is that his little

girl escaped on her own…and now has to face the dangers of the Rockies alone

and unarmed.

Mountain Man

Faith was the key. A person must always have

faith. Rosemary Spencer had it to spare. She had faith in her husband, Bert.

Faith in his decision to uproot their family and trek overland more than a

thousand miles to the Promised Land, or Oregon Country, as it was known. She

had faith in their children, fifteen-year-old Sam and nine-year-old Eddy, faith

they were mature enough to endure without complaint the hardships they would

encounter. She had faith in their team of oxen, in the plodding, steadfast,

tireless brutes on whom their lives depended. She had faith in the new

Conestoga the oxen were pulling, in its sturdy construction and reliability.

But most of all, Rosemary had faith in their Maker. God Almighty would see them

through to Oregon, would see to it they reached their homestead in the

Willamette Valley with their scalps and hides intact. Their wagon train was two

and a half weeks out of Fort Leavenworth, paralleling the sluggish Platte

River.