The Fur Post
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He survives wild animals, grass fires, hostile patrols and the warring tribes caught between France and Britain. What he cannot outrun is his own obsession.
Boundless McLennan, escaped convict, is lost and alone on the vast prairies of 18th century America. The French and Indian War is raging as two empires battle for a continent, the native nations are forced to take a side, and rival companies fight for control of the lucrative fur trade.
Amid the danger, Boundless conceives an audacious scheme: to carve a giant rock into the shape of a buffalo. Torn between ambition and the people it costs him, he sacrifices family and friends in his quest to leave a monument for the ages.
He is really carving his own destiny.
One war ends and another, the American Revolution, begins as he imposes his will on the implacable rock. By the time he finishes, America is born and he is an old man. His creation becomes his tombstone.
Book 2 in the epic five-book series Monuments of Grass. For readers of Michener and Follett, and all lovers of American frontier history.