Spirit Mountain by J.B. Patel

Spirit Mountain is a collection of three short books. Conway, in “Spirit Mountain,” runs away as a child and is captured by Indians who then give him to a mountain man. In the story “Knife,” he is abducted as a child, raised by a paid keeper, sold to pirates with orders to kill; he escapes and ends up in the hands of the Comanche. Lance Roman, in “The Peacemaker,” goes off to fight with the British, returns to find his love is married with children, devastated he heads west to trap in order to get away.