J.C. Nolan
Patriot in the Saddle
Hardcover
(JULIAN MESSNER March 15, 1946)
, SECOND PRINTIN edition
This book is set just before America's second war with England, in 1812. Kye Devon, who grew up in a clearing hacked out of the Tennessee forests by pioneers building a new nation, was making his own way in the world, when most boys were still keeping close to their parents' cabins. Through a series of events he got to know Andrew Jackson and became an express-courier to the Presedent of the United States. Thus it was that Kye became a first-hand observer of the conflict brewing between his beloved country and England, and learned the meaning of true patriotism...