Nathaniel Matthews

Dakota Black Nathaniel Matthews

What if in the early 1800's, during the beginning of Western expansion, the rocky hills of South Dakota hid the last living Dragon? A wondrous creature, beautiful and perfect... Terribly beautiful, imperviously and powerfully perfect. Inspired by Herman Melville's classic, Moby Dick. Young Isabelle journeys to Nantucket to find a place aboard a ship as a galley hand. She finds herself instead aboard the most unlikely of vessels, the airship Pequod, as it journeys west to hunt the great American Buffalo. Under the command of the obsessively mad Ahab, the ships original mission is abandoned to seek revenge on a dragon in the Dakota Territories of the early 19th century. The crew endures personal and internal conflict with the concepts of good and evil, Christian symbolism, and free will.