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By Michael Zimmer

A interesting story of métis buffalo hunts, a long-lost daughter, and a macabre secret.

Big John McTavish has been looking and buying and selling one of the métis buffalo hunters of the crimson River Valley for greater than thirty years. He’s a depended on member of the half-breed country, and a pacesetter of the mixed-bloods’ twice-yearly buffalo hunts. although, while he returns to the settlements within the fall of 1832 with a mountain guy he’s rescued from a Chippewa struggle get together, he has no approach of figuring out the chain of occasions the outsider is ready to unharness at the unsuspecting hunters, or the type of destruction that would keep on with them onto the buffalo levels that border the lonely Missouri River.

Before the hunters go back to their houses alongside the river, sizeable John will research the macabre mystery that has introduced the trapper from the a long way reaches of the Rocky Mountains. he'll find a daughter he idea he’d misplaced eternally, and relive the horror that took her away. And the métis will come to achieve that in the event that they are to outlive as an self reliant country, they need to eternally unfastened themselves of the effect not just of the strong Hudson Bay corporation, but additionally of the guy they've got considered as their pal for greater than 1 / 4 of a century.

Beneath a Hunter’s Moon is a singular of honor and treason, love and betrayal, yet commonly it's a tale a few proud and beautiful people—the métis of the purple River Valley.

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