The Storm Testament [I]. by Nelson, Lee - 1982.

Springville, Utah:: Council Press, 1982.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) . Description: The first novel in a Utah frontier series. Wanted by Missouri law for his revenge on a mob leader, 15 year old Dan Storm flees to the Rocky Mountains with his friend Ike, an escaped slave. Dan becomes an apprentice mountain man, and after a narrow escape in the legendary Valley of the Grizzlies, heads south from the Bitter Root Mountains to the Ute homeland. Dan becomes friends with Neuwafe, a subchief while Ike ends up with the horseless, destitute Gosiutes in the western Utah desert, becoming their fiercest warrior, and eventually their chief. In an effort to win a dowry for the hand of Neuwafe's sister, Dan teams up with Ike in a daring horse raid on the Northern Comanches. The publisher's about-the-author blurb tells us that ''until someone else steps forward, it appears that author Lee Nelson is the only man in modern times to kill a bull buffalo from the back of a galloping horse with a bow and arrow.'' Intent on gathering authentic research, Nelson also dug through dusty journals, learned to start fires without matches, and even ate raw buffalo. Note that the copyright page still carries the ''First Printing April 1982'' statement, however this is a later printing. The ads at the rear include book six which came out in 1988.