Amazon.com description: Product Description: Axe was moaning incoherently about giving life a run, all right, when the three Apaches found him. They sat on their horses quietly, taking in the white manmostly white manthe horses, the trees, the brush... Little escaped them. They could see from where they sat that the man was sick, not injured, and that the horses had been neglected for some time. They saw the packs in the grass on the bench land and saw the man's rifle leaning on the packs. That's how they knew he was ill in the heador a fool. He was a seasoned mountain man by the looks of his outfit, and they had no clue he was here till they stumbled on him. No fool. As Axe recovers from his injuries, he befriends Thinker, one of the Apaches who saved his life. Axe plans to 'move on' from Arizona to Mexico, but Thinker continually stalls him, even going so far as to arrange a wife for Axe! Axe helps Thinker understand the inevitability of Manifest Destiny. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican-American War and the United States' expansion westward, Coyote and the Bear is an epic adventure of war, love, and friendship.