Spanish Peaks Library District

"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus...

Sam Morgan, a member of Jedediah Smith's trapping brigade, is forced to abandon his infant daughter when his beloved Indian wife dies in childbirth. After traveling to Santa Fe with the brigade, Sam returns to California to reclaim his daughter and take her to his wife's village on the Wind River in Wyoming. When he gets to California, however, he learns that his daughter has been taken captive in an Indian raid. He eventually rescues his daughter...