In a time of Looming war, a young boy is thrust into a man's shoes in colonial North Carolina to protect his family farm with a 40 Caliber Rifle & Tomahawk. Twelve-year-old Wilbur Bowling had a smile on his face as he emerged from the forest that fringed his family's 25-acre farm on a cold March afternoon. He felt like a man. He looked like one too, at least in the opinion of Ruthie and Mary, his younger half-sisters. They were especially impressed with the stag-handled hunting knife he'd traded John Colby's wife for in exchange for his squirrel hunting...