New York: Random House, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised second novel (preceded by the award-winning 'Cold Mountain') It tells of "one mans remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Wills character." One of 1600 numbered and SIGNED copies. ISBN: 1400066395.