In the early 1800s, a Kentucky farm boy abandons the security of home, and his girlfriend, for a life of adventure. At 16, Titus Bass runs away to become a deckhand on a Mississippi flatboat, the first of many frontier escapades. But he tires of adventure and becomes a blacksmith.

When the Civil War ended, a great westward march began. Both settlers and soldiers streamed out from the East along the Bozeman Trail, cutting deep into sacred Sioux hunting grounds. For Red Cloud and his warriors, the fight to retain their ancestral homeland would be inevitable. Seen through the eyes of gruff Seamus Donegan, here is the historically accurate tale of the Fetterman Massacre of 1866: a tragic opening to one of the longest and most dramatic...

The battle-weary Civil War veteran Jonah Hook finally rescues his kidnapped wife, Gritta, after a decade-long search.

Bestselling American frontier novelist Terry C. Johnston has created an extraordinary, authentic saga of war, loss, and human struggle. This masterwork captures the complex, bloody tapestry of a land of men unchecked by the law, of native warriors continually betrayed, and of ever-expanding railroads.