Beardstown

“Informative and engaging . . . well-developed characters transform a timeline of events into a captivating tale. An epic novel.” —Kirkus Reviews

Five years have passed since the death of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh. The native peoples of the Midwest have been defeated, and the fertile soil of Illinois is up for grabs by a steady stream of opportunistic dreamers. The ones who get there first will shape this new America as it suits them—or so they intend.

When two young adventurers, Thomas Bea...