Grizzled mountain man Titus Bass experiences a series of frontier adventures, from a searing fight with the Comanche to a chase after horse thieves.

Titus encounters a magnificent sight: a dark and thundering herd of buffalo as far as the eye can see. It's a world of beauty and danger--a world where survival depends on a man's willingness to risk death.

Young Josiah Paddock flees his past in St. Louis, but his present in the Teton Mountains during winter doesn't look promising until he hooks up with Ol' Scratch, a solitary mountain man who teaches Josiah how to survive in the land of Blackfeet and Crow, pioneers and sensual women.

Titus Bass, accompanied by his fellow trappers, comes down from his mountain haunts for a winter of rabble-rousing in the frontier town of Taos and must take part in a battle to save the citizens from a band of raiding Comanche before he can follow his dream of striking out on his own into the vast western landscape.

The final Titus Bass novel is a magnificent tribute to one of the most beloved characters in American frontier fiction as the mountain man faces hard changes and watches his beloved way of life die off.