Boone Caudill

Boone Caudill is seventeen when the book opens. He is the son of Serena and John Caudill. After a fight with his father, he flees and his father follows. Boone has no money and no transportation. All he has is a rifle which is stolen by Jonathan Bedwell. Boone has a bad temper that he has a hard time controlling, which is why he finds himself in trouble. This is why he and his father had the fight which led to him running away. Jim Deakins helps him escape from several situations and they sign onto the Mandan and head up the Missouri River to the Blackfoot Nation. He, Jim and Summers survive the Indian attack on the Mandan. Years later Boone looks for and finds Teal Eye. He takes her as his squaw and lives with the remaining Piegans. He is known as Strong Arm. Even...