In the funniest historical novel about the West since Little Big Man (Denver Post), Mosher introduces Private True Teague Kinneson, who sets out with his nephew on an epic race to beat Lewis and Clark to the Pacific. n nHoward Frank Mosher introduces Private True Teague Kinneson, who sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, on an epic race to reach the Pacific before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewiss expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagaweas Shoshone relatives; and outwit Trues lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the devil himself. n