E R Walker

Marshal Reyburn E R Walker

This is a historic novel with action, danger, plots and sub plots. It commences the story of a young man coming of age at the turn of the 19th century. He shuns traditional education, and the fetters of civilization to move to the Indian Territory, living in the wilderness among the Cherokees, close to Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. Outlaws and assorted ruffians are a plague upon the residents, both red and white alike in this young portion of the country. Young Reyburn is trying to find his way in the world, and find his own place to make a home for himself on the frontier. He is aided by Cherokee relations, grandparents, adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a son of Stand Watie, the General of the Confederate States / Cherokee nation; retired.. Watie is schooling Reyburn to be a statesman and to resume a higher education. Reyburn has the abilities and the characteristics of a born leader; still yet to be developed and burnished to perfection on the frontier. Meeting up with a Federal Marshal from Judge Parker's court in Fort Smith, Arkansas Reyburn begins an adventure and dangerous undertaking with the Marshal Hines.