Dan'l Boone #7
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDan'l Boone's wealthy stepfather Ernest forces a contest between Dan'l and his biological son William to determine who is the better man—the winner will inherit the family fortune. The two brothers embark on a frontier journey where they encounter various dangers including beavers that have dammed streams and Paleface, an Indian spy working with a renegade named Jolly Jim Dandy who plans to smuggle large guns downriver to attack the settlements. Dan'l must outwit his brother and stop the illegal weapons plot to prove his worth and secure his inheritance.
Simon Girty—a vicious renegade shaped by loss and hatred—leads devastating raids across the Kentucky frontier, orchestrating ambushes and building his reputation as a warrior without peer. When Dan'l Boone returns from a long hunt, he becomes Girty's obsession, and the outlaw devises an audacious plan to infiltrate Boone's own settlement. With cunning and disguise, Girty maneuvers into a position to strike at the man he believes is his only match—but frontier legend has a few tricks of his own.
In "Test of the Wilderness," Amos Templer puts his sons Ernst and William to the ultimate test, sending them into the harsh frontier to prove who is truly fit to inherit his fortune. With survival hanging in the balance, the brothers must navigate the unforgiving wilderness, where strength, wits, and resilience are the only measures of worth.
Jolly Jim Dandy is ordered to take a rest cure by a doctor after wearing himself out helping friends, but his recovery is cut short when he overhears a masked renegade and a band of raiders planning to strike the settlement at dawn. Too weak and feverish to convince anyone of the danger, Jim must rely on his wits and an unlikely alliance with a family of beavers to stop the attack before it's too late.
Dan'l Boone discovers strange deep tracks crossing the frontier and realizes they were made by massive cannons—weapons the local tribes are planning to use against the settlements. With his young companion Jim, Boone must track down the "big guns," sabotage their transport, and face off against overwhelming odds to prevent a catastrophic assault on Kentucky. It's a race against time as Boone and Jim use cunning and grit to stay one step ahead of their pursuers and protect everything they've sworn to defend.
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Reprinted in Heroes of the West #159 (1959), Kongo-Jim #12/1957 (1967), Redmask of the Rio Grande #3 (1992), Best of the West #48 (2004), Heroes of the West #151
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