Crows and Cards Author:Joseph Helgerson, Peter de Seve (Illustrator) Three warnings for readers who hate surprises: 1. Beware of slivers, 2. and gamblers, 3. and aces. — Zebulon Crabtree found all that out the hard way back in 1849 when his mother and father shipped him off to St. Louis to apprentice with a tanner. Too bad he had serious allergies to fur and advice from his parents. — Hearing the beat of a differen... more »t drummer, Zeb takes up with a riverboat gambler who has some special plans for him, crosses paths with a slave who turns out to be a better friend than cook, and learns that some Indian medicine men can see even though blind.
And then there’s the Brotherhood—the one that Zeb can’t seem to get out of. . . . Lucky for us, the price of living in turbulent times is often a good story, and Zeb spins an unforgettable one.« less