Terry C. Johnston

Crack in the Sky continues the development of the young Titus Bass as he gradually learns the lore of the mountain man. From a raucous rendezvous of trappers to a searing fight with Comanche, from a frigid winter’s chill to the angry heat of a chase...

Sixteen-year-old Titus Bass fears one fate more than any other: never to experience the great wilderness or the wildness inside himself. So late one night he snatches a squirrel gun and a handful of biscuits, flees into the woods, and doesn’t look...

With the end of the beaver trade at hand, free trappers like Titus Bass must somehow make their way on a changing frontier.Drawn by the promise of adventure and wealth, Bass joins an expedition to Spanish California, where the ranchos have horses and...

The time of the mountain man is coming to an end, but some, like Titus Bass, will not exit gently. A brilliantly exciting and thoroughly researched novel of the end of the dream that was the unmapped and virgin wilderness in the American West,...

In this breathtaking climax, Bass, the hardy survivor of a world now gone, prepares to fight his magnificent final battle.The wild and free world of the mountain man is quickly fading into the past. For Titus Bass, leading his family north to winter...