Jean LaBerge is a peaceful man as he rides west from Vermont to claim the Land Grant, in the Ohio Wilderness, recently awarded to him as a veteran of the Revolutionary War. When a beautiful young lady, he meets on a riverboat while traveling on the Ohio River, is kidnapped, he rides to her rescue like a Knight in Shining Armor. THE TALL STRANGER is a tender love story, filled with a variety of interesting characters and unexpected twists and turns of fate, as Jean LaBerge and Hannah Cody fall in love and build a new life in the primeval wilderness beyond the Ohio River.