Clede McCabe was the son of a poor Scottish immigrant who settled on a farm in Indiana in the early 1800s. Clede was a restless young man and an only son who refused to follow in his father’s footsteps. Farming would never be what he wanted to do. Seeing no other means of escape, he ran away to join the war against his father’s wishes.
Clede returned home three long years later with a badly crippled leg only to find a broken and run-down farm. His mother and father were both dead from the fever. Nothing left at home, he sold the farm to a neighbor and decided to go west in search of somewhere he could be alone and maybe find himself.
What he found in the far Northwest was beyond his wildest dreams. Surrounded by beauty and untamed wilderness, he fell in love with a way of life that would change him forever.
