Bad Man Ballad

by Scott Russell Sanders

Book Overview

The time is 1813, during America's last war with England; the place is the Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village greens. Each log cabin is a fortress, and no one travels without a knife and gun. Through this armed and fearful countryside, three people--Ely Jackson, a 17-year-old backwoods boy; Owen Lightfoot, a lawyer from Philadelphia with a romantic view of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253216885
• ISBN13: 9780253216885
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher