Rivers west - 4567

An adventure novel about Louisiana, riverboats, and the American frontier. Jean Talon's dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when he began his journey westward, he stumbled on a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman's search to find her missing brother, and a ruthless band of renegades. Led by the brazen Baron Torville, this makeshift army of opportunists are plotting a violent takeover of the Louisiana Territory. Jean swears to find a way to stop this daring plan. If he doesn't, it will not only put an end to all his dreams; it will change the course of historyand destroy the promise of the American frontier. "He killed me," the dying man had said."He stabbed me."Those words stayed with young Jean Talon as he journeyed westward, finally reaching the Missouri in search of a simple and honest life building riverboats. But the stranger died. And that meant unraveling a deadly knot that tied together a vicious renegade's army, the L