Describes the difficulties and animals encountered by the crew of the Geronimo on their voyage to capture a whale, the most difficult animal to bring back alive.
Captured at the age of twelve by a U.S. General he comes to regard as father, Johnny Logan, a nephew of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, eventually rejects the ways of his tribe and becomes an American spy during the War of 1812.
Running away from a vicious trapper, seven-year-old Ben MacDonald is separated from his family and eventually ends up on the shored of Lake Winnipeg, where he is taken in by a tribe of Metis Indians.
