Three warnings for listeners who hate surprises:
- Beware of slivers,
- and gamblers,
- and aces.
Zebulon Crabtree found all that out the hard way back in 1849 when his
mother and father shipped him off to St. Louis to apprentice with a
tanner. Too bad he had serious allergies to fur and advice from his
parents. Hearing the beat of a different drummer, Zeb takes up with a
riverboat gambler who has some special plans for him, crosses paths with
a slave who turns out to be a better friend than cook, and learns that
some Indian medicine men can see even though blind. And then there's the
Brotherhood--the one that Zeb can't seem to get out of....