Lost in the Cañon The Story of Sam Willett's Adventures on the Great Colorado of the West

"Lost in the Cañon" by A. R. Calhoun is a late 19th-century tale of survival and adventure in the rugged terrain of Southwestern Colorado. Young Sam Willett, his father, and their companions, including a Ute boy named Ulna and a black boy named Ike, face the daily challenges of hunting and living in the wilderness as miners. After a successful hunt, the group returns with a bighorn sheep to their camp, only to become entangled in the complex social dynamics and tensions of a nearby mining community marked by a recent murder, setting the scene for a journey filled with both external dangers and internal moral struggles.