The Deerslayer's Destiny: The Sam Ogden Mountain Man Series

The year is 1825, the year that the government of President James Munroe signed the Treaty with the Mandan Indians. The Indians are still trying to understand what kind of people these are who place such importance in documents that are just words on paper! But the effort to come to some kind of agreement with these usually nomadic peoples weighs heavily on Washington politicians.
Young Sam Ogden has just completed his first Mountain Man Rendezvous, where he has become a celebrity for this ...