A Different World

About the Book

In 1826, lands west of the Mississippi river were still unexplored, let alone unsettled. Indians were still free and the only non indian people who live in this untamed wilderness were a group of rare, hardy men, called Mountain Men. Among this group is a Scottish teenager named Hezekiah MacGyver. Naive, but intelligent, hardworking and adventuresome, Hezekiah along with his best friend, runaway slave Steven Johnson, learn the ways of being a mountain man in what is commonly known as the Rocky Mountain College, under the tutelage of  veteran Mountain Man Frazier Mathis and his beautiful Shoshone wife Cornflower. But Hezekiah quickly learns that these lessons come at a price, for life is seldom fair and that a man's first lesson can and will cost him his life. Knowing what can go wrong usually does in the life of trapper, Hezekiah learns them quickly, who to trust and who not to trust, kill or be killed, but  what Hezekiah didn't expect from this harsh life he has chosen was to have his heart be captured by a young beautiful Nez Perce maiden named Born In Mist Woman.

   This is a story of adventure, faith, compassion and love in a world that was wild and unforgiving, one boy takes his journey to manhood with his head held high and without compromise and learns that the rewards for being true to himself and to the Creator of all things are unmeasurable.

About the Author

After serving 7 and a half years in the U.S. Air Force, LeRoy Peters returned to his native home of Clarksville, Md. This is his second novel and his first one that is a Western. After publishing his short Biblical novel Joseph & Asenath, LeRoy began taking an interest in the history of the Fur Trade era and the culture of the American Indians, whoem he considers the original and real American citizens. The youngest of two children, he is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist faith and enjoys having discussions and sharing his faith and love for Jesus Christ with others, especially with American Indians. His hobbies are reading, writing, working out, going to powwows and traveling. He has been to Europe, Egypt, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan and Iraq and has visited at least 6 Indian reservations those being, Spirit Lake, Standing Rock, Fort Berthold, Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge and the Navajo Indian reservation in Tuba City, AZ. He plans to attend Montana State University in Bozeman, MT in the fall of 2009. He will major in History and hopes to teach History from the Indian point of view on the Indian reservations.