My Brother the Wind Author:G. Clifton Wisler Young Timothy Welles was a survivor. The civil War had claimed his father at Shiloh, and his mother had passed away only a few years later. He had set out with his brothers to join their sister in Oregon, and they had separated in Wyoming -- Timothy continuing on alone with the Hudson family, whom they had met along the way. Bu... more »t Cheyenne warriors attacked the Hudson's wagon, killed the whole family and took Timothy captime. Standing on the fearful border between life and death, Timothy was rescuied by a mountain man, Bear.
Bear was a man of nature, at home in the wilds of the Grand Tetons. He raised Timothy as his own, training him in his ways, teaching him how to be at one with the world. Timothy's growth into manhood was tough, but under Bear's tutelage it was more exciting than any other way of life ever could have been. This is the story of the bond between a man and a boy, a bond stronger than any family tie, told against the bakground of a changing West.