Following the War of Independence against the British Crown a band of Tennessee settlers begins to carve out a new state in a young nation but face the opposition of the federal government and bloody resistance from the Chickamauga Indians. In this untamed land Owen Killefer a slender lad barely in his teens will face a trial by fire at the hands of white men and Indians alike and find within himself a stout spirit as strong as that of any frontiersman.The third volume in The Tennessee Frontier Trilogy The Canebrake Men is a saga of adventure set in the period from 1785 to 1800. In it Cameron Judd paints a portrait of the unforgettable men and women whose vision passion and pain gave rise to the new nation such as Joshua Coulter who had made a life amid the dangers of the rugged frontier and had been tamed by the Tennessee Wilderness only to discover again a deep restlessness that stirred in his heart Owen Killefer who set out for the Chickamauga country as a boy to avenge a bloody crime Emaline Killefer who was torn from her family in a bloody raid by a British deserter and taken to live among the Chickamauga as his unwilling wife John Sevier the frontiersman who led raids against the Indians and was named governor of a wouldbe state the federal government never recognized Andrew Jackson a brash young lawyer with a fiery temper who first met Joshua Colter as an opponent in a brawl but soon became a strong ally and loyal friend