Mountain Man Zeb Simms - The Moon Witch: A Fascinating Western Escapade
Renowned guide, tracker and mountain man Zeb Simms is hired in 1847 by a merchant to guide two wagons of goods over the Oregon Trail to the missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman at the Waiilatpu Mission Station in the Oregon Territory (Washington State). The men in the wagon party spend much of their time fighting amongst themselves, made worse by the addition into their midst of a Comanche Indian woman Red Bird who seems to have mysterious magical powers.
Zeb finds a love for this woman he can’t control.
The wagon party is targeted by a cutthroat renegade Pawnee Killer and his band of misfits exiled from the Sioux Tribe. Pawnee Killer vows to kill Zeb and his party and take possession of the Indian girl he suspects of being a sorceress, and whose powers he wants to harness.
Red Bird promises Zeb entry into a spirit world, leadership of Indian peoples and eternal happiness.