In the Shadow of the Wind

by Luke Wallin

It is 1835 in the stolen Creek Indian lands of the southeast. Caleb McElroy, a white man of sixteen, riding on wolf hunt in the snow, discovers Six Deer, a young Creek near death on his vision quest. Caleb rescues Six Deer, and eventually joins Pine Basket, his sister, and their family in the struggle to survive the Trail of Tears.

Genres: Historical Fiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1984

About the author

Luke Wallin was born and raised in Mississippi. He has written eight award-winning novels for children and young adults, and with his daughter, Eva Sage Gordon, wrote The Everything Guide to Writing Children’s Books, 2nd edition.
He is the author of Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture, which was edited by Eva Sage Gordon. With Anne Buttimer, Luke co-edited and contributed to the anthology Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective.

Luke holds an MFA in fiction writing (Iowa), an MA in philosophy (Alabama), and an MRP in regional planning (UMass Amherst). He taught philosophy at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts, literature as a Fulbright professor at University College Dublin, creative writing in Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, and is professor emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. These days he loves painting in his wildflower garden.

For more about Luke and his family, see his photo-essay memoir “Longing for Wilderness,” online at Sisyphus magazine (December 2022).