Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net SHAMAN A NOVEL "In _Shaman_ we live again an all but-forgotten chapter of American history, replete with adventure, violence, and eroticism--the compelling and often horrific account of a collision between two cultures so different that one of them has to be wiped off the face of the earth." Gary Jennings Author of _Aztec_ ROBERT SHEA AUTHOR OF _SHIKE_ SHAMAN _Also by Robert Shea_ THE ILLUMINATUS! TRILOGY (with Robert Anton Wilson) SHIKE ALL THINGS ARE LIGHTS THE SARACEN: LAND OF THE INFIDEL THE SARACEN: THE HOLY WAR SHAMAN Robert Shea BALLANTINE BOOKS _New York_ Copyright (C) 1991 by Robert Shea Map Copyright (C) 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-93215 ISBN: 0-345-36048-6 Text design by Debby Jay Map by Patrick O'Brien Cover design by William Geller Cover painting by Joe Burleson Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition: March 1991 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant spellings remain as printed, whilst inconsistent hyphenation has been standardised. Thanks to Michael Shea for giving Project Gutenberg permission to distribute _Shaman_. FOR AL ZUCKERMAN _Friend, Mentor, Agent, Shaman of Letters_ Acknowledgments I'm most grateful for the help given me by Paul Brickman, Julie Garriott, David Hickey, the Illinois Historical Society, Jim and Paula Pettorini, George Weinard, Timothy J. Wheeler, and the Wisconsin Historical Society. And a special word of thanks to my bonnie wife, Yvonne Shea, who, having a sharp eye for a fine old book, brought Thomas Ford's _History of Illinois_ into our home. "Rock River was beautiful country. I loved my towns, my cornfields and the home of my people. I fought for them." --BLACK HAWK BOOK 1 1825 Moon of Ice _January_ 1 The Lodge of the Turtle