Kentucky to Missouri Self-published by Joyce Crawford

By the dark of the moon, canoes slide silently over a black river. Leading this contingency of braves, Chief Opitchapam and his son, Na-ta’a-em, protect Richard Burton, his young Powhatan wife, and John Running Stream Burton, the chief’s infant grandson, as they escape Jamestown. The small band of canoes travels for three days until they discover Henricopolis in the Indian territory of Virginia, where the Shawnee people welcome and protect the young refugees.

Years of unsettling violence of the French-Indian wars, the British press for more land, and the Iroquois’ greed for more fertile hunting grounds forced the family to leave their Henricopolis home in 1641. The Burton family forge across the Alleghanies to a land where blue grass grows abundant and sweet, and peace enfolds them. Richard Burton and his family make a new home in the Indian territory of Kentucky.

How will God lead the family? What adventures and misadventures await them?