The tenth adventure in a Mountain Man series from Ash Lingam!
Like Rusty Steel before him, Capt. Will Forrester strikes out to search for his destiny after his best friend suddenly marries an Indian—she is a war chief. Levi Johnson was at his side one moment, and the next, he was gone, sending the West Point officer on a careening journey into the unknown. They had come to the Rocky Mountains together to become mountain men, but now Levi Johnson was living with the Crow Indians. All their plans vanished like the sun on a rainy day.
Levi and his wife, Dahteste, encounter complications blending two distinct cultures—a Crow woman and a white man—but they try to resist and hold fast. Will their love last, or is it as fleeting as safety in the Rocky Mountains?
Virgil Lovejoy and his employees, Clinch West and Bud Guns, meet Will Forrester in unusual circumstances. They travel to the most isolated valleys deep in the mountains, searching for their fortune in buffalo hides. Will the Indians allow them to leave with their scalps?
Twists and turns in our mountain men’s journeys take all their lives on new paths as a new day is born, and the compound’s residents’ world is turned upside down, and chaos follows.
Ash Lingam was born and raised in Southern Ohio, not far from the mighty Ohio River. He had somewhat of an isolated upbringing on a family farm with his sisters. His best friends were his horse, Sugar, and his grandfather. Born in 1886, the family patriarch grew crops, raised cattle, and doted on the young boy. At his grandfather’s side, Ash learned about livestock and firearms at an early age. His grandad carried an old Colt with him at all times, helping spawn a young boy’s dreams of yesteryear. Ash was only eight years old when his grandad taught him how to trap muskrats to prevent them from draining the farm’s ponds. He gave him a double-barreled shotgun at twelve and taught him how to hunt to put food on the table. It wasn’t long before Ash was breaking horses. His spirited Tennessee Walker never allowed any other rider on her back. Together, they searched through the plowed fields in the spring, looking for Miami Indian arrowheads to add to his grandfather’s ample collection. Ash’s family was among the early settlers in pre-Revolutionary America. He has traced his lineage back to around 1746 when his ancestors immigrated from Europe to the aspiring American Colonies. A retired marketing executive, Ash devotes his spare time to training police dogs and writing novels. He has found his niche in the Western, historical fiction, and adventure genres. With his vast vault of experience, he never runs out of sources for new stories. He has lived in eleven different countries and worked in a total of forty-six, To date, Ash has written approximately 130 novels, short stories, and poems. More than one hundred of his eclectic titles help the American frontier come alive for his readers.
This is a good story, with a very good story line, about one of the mountain men from the group with Rusty Steel, who rode off on his own ,to find his self,and what happened too him on his search.
Levi JOHNSON and Will Forrester seem to attract danger like snow to the Rocky Mountaintops. Keep 'em coming, Ash. I can't wait to read what happens next.
Another great story of mountain men and the struggles that life in harsh times through at them l am hoping more will come of Levi and life in the Rockies