Paul Bagdon

Bogs down towards middle and becomes slow going. No female characters and limited character development of most others.

Scrapper John: Valley of the Spotted Horse by Paul Bagdon this is the first in the series.
Scrapper John Lewis is riding with his father Stone Pete Lewis threw a valley in the mountains. when a grizzly bear attacks and gravely injuries Pete. Scarpper gets him home leaving his wolf/dog Musket to guard his dad, and goes to his dads friend Sweetwater Eddy for help. After Eddy and Scrapper bury Pete, Scrapper sets out to go to his Nez Perce grandfather Dark Eagle Walking. Along the way he has show more adventures, and rescues Seeks The Far Sky a Blackfoot Indian boy from a flash flood. Sky gets sick from almost drowning, Dark Eagle puts the boys in the medicine lodge and when they come out Shy is cured. Sky is on a quest to get a horse from the Valley of spotted horses, Scrapper joins him, Dark eagle warns the boy that they will have to climb in to the valley, and the only way out is through the Path of Death an area littered with skeletons and rattlesnakes. show less

Didn't get far into this. Not to my taste.