Exploits of Daniel Boone #2

When Daniel Boone and his companion Sam Esty scout deep into Shawanee territory, they walk straight into Chief Red Axe's trap—Boone barely escapes with his life while Sam is taken prisoner and marked for the torture stake. With the village gathered for a victory celebration and outnumbered a hundred to one, Boone must use cunning, a salvaged magnifying glass, and a terrifying deception to rescue his friend before the night is through.

When Chief Red Axe arrives at Boonesborough with vengeance on his mind and most of the settlement's men away on a hunt, Captain Daniel Boone faces a desperate choice: his outnumbered garrison cannot hold off 200 warriors for long. To save his people from massacre, Boone challenges Red Axe to a personal duel at dawn—a test of skill, cunning, and honor in the wilderness. With the fate of Boonesborough hanging in the balance, Boone must prove himself in a confrontation that will decide whether the settlers survive the coming winter.

When Daniel Boone and his friend Sam Esty help what appears to be a desperate settler, they walk straight into a deadly trap set by the renegade Marcus Sager and Chief Red Axe. Captured and forced to run a gauntlet, the two scouts must use every ounce of cunning and nerve to survive—first freeing themselves from their bonds, then fighting their way through an Indian town and toward the river in a desperate bid for escape. It's a tense, action-packed struggle where wit and quick thinking become their only real weapons.

Indian scout Jed Stevens guides a flatboat full of settlers down the Ohio River, but their journey becomes a desperate fight for survival when hostile Indians pin them down on a sandbar and rain fire arrows upon the stranded vessel. With limited water and ammunition, Stevens must find an ingenious way to break free before the settlers' boat is consumed by flames and the attackers overwhelm them.