From birth to young adulthood, the Indian boy affects beyond his own recognition the lives of others in a multitude of encounters.
He is guided by the many characters he meets on a self-imposed journey across the Western United States.
He seeks comfort, but his own life is on a tumultuous path destined for more unwanted hardship.
He is nurtured by an Indian storyteller and a young girl who brightens his life, but the sweetness is fleeting.
He is encouraged by a Mexican merchant and counseled by a dying classmate.
He finds sanctuary in the fruit trees, but it is lost.
He travels to places of wonder.
He sees the worst among us.
Forced to wander, he lives a vagabond life always in search of the special one and finding only solitude.
Radersburg Publishing Bowman: the twenty-five year odyssey of joseph bowman, paperback/rob ewart
