In
Wausau, he was called Jotham. In Michigan's upper peninsula, he went by the name
of Ahmeek. A boy's upbring in dual cultures is at the heart of this all-ages novel.
In a charming story set in the late 19th Century, young Jotham goes to school in Wausau but spends summers at his father's logging camp, where he learns Native American ways from a tribal chief named Eagle Feather.
The mix of Italian immigrant and Native American cultures becomes important
as Jotham grows to manhood and must resolve a bitter dispute between the loggers
and construction workers who have come to build dams for electric power.
Rivers Must Run offers an important slice of Wisconsin and upper Michigan history in an engaging story steeped in cultural contrasts.
Paul Kending worked as a television weatherman and as an instructor for 28 years at the University of Wisconsin in Superior. He is a world traveler and his father owned logging camps in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Publication date: May 1997
Fiction
Trade paperback
ISBN 1-878569-46-5
$12.95
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