Bear Claws (The Iron Horse Chronicles)

Winner of the 2016 Silver Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for Younger Readers. In Bear Claws, The Iron Horse Chronicles--Book 2, fifteen-year-old Will Braddock continues as a hunter for his uncle's survey team as the transcontinental railroad crosses Wyoming in 1868. But Paddy O'Hannigan's vendetta grows more sinister,and Will is forced to use all his skills to save Ulysses S. Grant when Paddy attempts to blow up the presidential candidate's train.