Dan'l Boone #8

When Dan'l Boone is captured alongside a group of settlers by Shawnee warriors, the other captives grow convinced he's truly abandoned them—especially as he rides at ease with his captors and speaks fluent Shawnee to their chief, Blackfish, who has long sought to reclaim him as an adopted son. But Boone's loyalty runs deeper than appearances, and he's playing a dangerous game to turn the tide in the settlers' favor from within the enemy camp. A tense tale of trust betrayed and redeemed on the frontier, "Sell-Out!" cuts right to the heart of what it means to fight for your own people when the only way forward means looking like a traitor.

Crooked Jim Lyman nurses a grudge against Dan'l Boone after being driven out of Kentucky, and he seizes the chance to fan those flames by deceiving a young man named Tom Chapman with lies about Boone's cowardice. When Tom travels into the wilderness seeking revenge, he's saved from a cliff by Boone himself—but his thirst for vengeance won't let him abandon his mission, even as his quarry faces down a grizzly bear. Tom's grudge will be tested by what he witnesses in the wild.

When scheming land speculators hire a hypnotist to sabotage Jolly Jim Dandy's mission to recruit settlers to Kentucky, they underestimate the frontier talker's quick wits and theatrical savvy. Jim outsmarts the hypnotist at his own game, turning the tables to expose the plot and tell Virginia the real truth about the fertile frontier land. It's a rousing tale of cunning and courage set in the untamed Kentucky wilderness.

Dan'l Boone helps restless young settlers build a small stockade outside Logan's Station as a way to keep them occupied while the settlement awaits a Wyandot attack—but his real purpose is far more cunning. When the tribe launches their assault using a massive log shield as both battering ram and siege ladder, Boone's "toy" stockade becomes the perfect hidden position for a devastating counterattack that turns the tide of battle.