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Moccasin Trail

In this book there is this guy named Jim Keath who used to listen to his uncle's stories about him being a mountain man. So he decides to run away and follow his uncle's footsteps In today's world lots of People run away from home especially teenagers. He goes to live a life like a mountain man with other white men. BUt he gets attacked by a grizzly bear and they leave him behind. then he gets taken in by these crow Indians and they nurse him back to health. He later adapts to that life and becomes a crow Indian himself .This event in the book is common in many stories about an Indian. But this will also be relevant to kids today who don't have parents are adopted every day and it's like they were taken too. And homeless

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