Historical 

Would Kendra ever be ready to face the scary and confusing world far from the wilderness she had come to love? George McManus traveled night and day from his wilderness cabin when the tragic news arrived that his daughter and son-in-law had died in a river accident. His only granddaughter, Kendra Marty, not yet four years old, had been left behind. McMannus was her only family, but what could a trapper, living alone in the backwoods, do to care for Kendra? She waas such a tiny thing-so small to have lost so much. He should have known from the first time he looked into those large green eyes that the two of them belonged together. Papa Mac, as Kendra came to call him, knew her place was with him. But what kind of hime, what kind of training, could he provide in a wilderness of mountains and trees and rives that no one had even named? - from Amzon