Robert Shea

BALLANTINE BOOKS
New York

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-93215

ISBN: 0-345-36048-6

Text design by Debby Jay
Map by Patrick O'Brien
Cover design by William Geller
Cover painting by Joe Burleson

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition: March 1991

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Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant spellings remain as printed, whilst inconsistent hyphenation has been standardised.

Thanks to Michael Shea for giving Project Gutenberg permission to distribute Shaman.

Although not present in the original publication, the following list of contents has been provided for convenience:

Book 1, 1825
- 1. [The Lodge of the Turtle]
- 2. [The Spirit Bear]
- 3. [Claw Marks]
- 4. [Master of Victoire]
- 5. [Star Arrow]
- 6. [In the Ancient Grove]
- 7. [Raoul's Mark]

Book 2, 1831
- 8. [Homecoming]
- 9. [Bequest]
- 10. [Dispossessed]
- 11. [Redbird's Wickiup]
- 12. [The War Whoop]
- 13. [The Volunteers]
- 14. [First Blood]
- 15. [The Blockhouse]
- 16. [Yellow Hair]
- 17. [Uncle Sam's Men]

Book 3, 1832
- 18. [The Trembling Lands]
- 19. [The Band Divided]
- 20. [River of Blood]
- 21. [The Red Blanket]
- 22. [Renegade]
- 23. [Sharp Knife]
- 24. [Challenge]
- 25. [The Other World]
- 26. [Blood on the Land]

FOR AL ZUCKERMAN
Friend, Mentor, Agent, Shaman of Letters