The Great Sioux Trail: A Story of Mountain and Plain

A 1918 boys' adventure novel by Joseph A. Altsheler, the first in a series about the opening of the American West after the Civil War. It follows young Will Clarke and the scout Jim Boyd as they travel into Sioux country, where Chief Red Cloud threatens to bar the trail to soldiers and settlers.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic westerns and frontier tales›Plains, mountain men, and Indian wars›Scouts, trappers, and buffalo hunters

Reader

Young readers›Westerns and frontier stories›Plains, mountain men, and Indian wars