Publisher's Synopsis
Eighteen years has passed since Robert Flint, and Joshua Wells along with their wives, lily, and Rebecca had three adventurous sons. Frank and peter Flint, and Benjamin Wells. Soon they would embark on their dreams that the three had been thinking of while living, and working upon the Missouri, and Mississippi River trading with St. Louis, and New Orleans on their keelboat Halfmoon. The west had exploded from St. Louis up the Mississippi, and down to New Orleans after Lewis and Clark returned from their historical journey to the Pacific Ocean. Still the Missouri River was wild, and un-tamed. Independence, Missouri was the hub for any westward expansion, a rough and dangerous town. Here the brave and weathered men would head west to Santa Fe alone, or with their families. The demand for furs was high, and soon the trappers would become mountain men. These harden, brave, and very independent men would branch out into the high mountains, and hidden valleys to trap the beaver, fox, and in time go after the buffalo for their hides. In 1804 Fort Atkinson was founded, and a stopping point by Lewis and Clark. Here known as Council Bluffs was where the military would keep the peace, and sign treaties with the surrounding Indians. Here is where the great fur trade would begin, and this is where the adventurous sons of Robert Flint, and Joshua Wells would soon be a part of, and beyond. Little did they know how they would be involved in opening up the Missouri River, and beyond to its mouth near the three Great Falls, and the adventures that they would have to endure to get there.
