Shadows on the Lonesome Trail

In Shadows on the Lonesome Trail, award-winning author and story-teller Barry H. Young provides the reader with absorbing action, terror, haunting mysticism, sizzling romance and heart-breaking pathos. His characters, true to the time and to the land, bring life and vitality to the magic of his words. His descriptions of the sweeping grandeur and unforgettable beauty of the unconquered land are pure poetry.Bursting with adventure and suspense, Shadows on the Lonesome Trail follows the transformation of a young boy, Josh Shannon, who witnesses the brutal slaughter of his parents and townsfolk. Standing over their graves he swears a pact of revenge that takes him deep into a cruel country where gunplay rules and he is a killer with the law on his trail.Soon made welcome by the Sioux Indians, Shannon learns their ways and shares the despair of their decimation. When a beautiful union ends tragically he soon discovers that his own fate is linked with these people and their wild country.