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Sam Minard travels the western frontier seeking revenge for the death of his Indian wife, Lotus.

While escorting Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post, Preacher is pitted against an Englishman armed with a band of cutthroat killers who will do anything to keep both trappers and tribes from settling on the land he has claimed to build his empire.

1845, in the untamed Oregon Territory. Tim Colder escapes when his family is ambushed by a gang of cutthroats; his parents butchered, his sisters missing. Luckily he finds a friend in Jed Reno, a one-eyed trapper who's lived in the Rockies since the 20's-- and is looking for the same gang that attacked Tim's family. Colter has no choice but to grow up fast, face his fears, and fight back with everything he's got.

"RENDEZVOUS: Willow Valley, July 1831 - Zach Connors and his family are finally safe and among friends, where he can let his wounded leg heal. All of the Trappers and Mountain Men anxiously await the supply train from Saint Louis. It had been a perilous spring and summer for Zach, his family and friends. Known as Grizzly Killer throughout the wilderness they had fought a battle against Gros Ventre warriors and nearly lost a close friend in an avalanche....

"In the spring of 1832 Zach Connors and his family have survived another winter in the Rocky Mountains. In 1828 William Reed built a trading post on the Uintah River, just over the mountains from Zach's home on Blacks Fork. This Summer Zach will lead his family over the high passes and into the land of Running Wolf and Shining Star's birth, but Mother Nature can be a deadly mistress. Alex Martin and Gabe Henshaw have spent a terrible winter leading...

Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River -- the longest in North America -- all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile...

"Journey through the land of the ancient ones, where spirits still protect the mysterious canyons where they once dwelled, and strange drawings on the rock walls have stood for a thousand years. Zach Connors, known as Grizzly Killer, travels with his family through the rugged and mysterious canyons where the Anasazi once built their homes high on the cliffs. The year is 1833, and they are going to Taos for the supplies they will need for another year...

After eleven years spent looking for the girl who stole his heart, Jean-Jacques Baptiste--better known as French to his friends--is tempted to give up. Until the day he spotted the flaxen-haired stranger traveling the wooded path with Blackfoot Indians. He never imagined he'd find his childhood friend masquerading as a man in this Rocky Mountain wilderness, hundreds of miles from the Canadian town where he last saw her. No matter her reasons, he can't...

"Set in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rainforests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast, Trask follows a mountain man's quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. Elbridge Trask is a restless man, a gambler with God, nature, and life itself. Yearning for change, he sets out with Wakila, a young Clatsop Indian, and Charley Kehwa, a tamanawis man or spiritual leader of the tribe, on an extraordinary journey of discovery."--Jacket....