It is 1832, six years after he deserted the Royal Navy, when Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of a lifetime begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him. With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric...

This novel is based on the experience of American explorer John Frm̌ont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, when he becomes trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains and must fight his way out.

Barnaby Skye and his Crow Indian Wife travel to St. Louis in the hopes of finding a job as a post trader, but along the way, the couple encounter numerous obstacles.

In 1870, mountain man Barnaby Skye, noticing the landscape changing from the slaughtering of buffalo and the government's relocation of tribes to reservations and despite the hesitation of his two Native American wives, decides it is time for a change.

"On his graduation from Harvard, Jay Warren, son of a self-made rich man, receives a ticket to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and five hundred dollars with instructions to find himself and shape his own destiny. He hopes to find Easy Street, but instead has some brutal lessons and plenty of opportunity to succeed or to destroy himself"--

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"The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry warriors to the vicious beasts of the mountains, and the one name that all men of the frontier praise and whisper as if in prayer is Barnaby Skye. Elkanah Morse went west from Lowell, Massachusetts, with one goal in mind: to study the ways of the far tribes. But entrance into their world is not easy. Only one man is capable of bringing him to the native peoples safely, only one man who knows exactly...