Schaefer, Frank, — The Scapeweed Goat.

NY, Poseidon Press, (1989). 1st proof. VG PB advance uncorrected proof. In a remote wilderness cabin an old man who identifies himself only as J struggles against cold, hunger and marauding. wolverines, and sets out to record the most impotant event in his life; his fatal encounter long before with New Rousseau or "Home" a secet utopian community located deep in the heart of America. In 1845 an emaciated runaway from Home named David stumbles onto J's blissful pioneer farmsead. Soon after a bloody battle ensues when a ruthless group of "Guards" arrives to take David back to New Rousseau. When it's over"J"' frontier idyll is forever shattered.