Brothers of the Heart: A Story of the Old Northwest 1837-1838

Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him, not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple in a frontier village.Shem Perkins leaves home after a quarrel with his father and gains insight into spirit and maturity through Mary Goodhue