Synopses & Reviews
No one alive can bring the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the American frontier to life like Terry C. Johnston. His prose, as robust and inspiring as the land and people it celebrates, has thrilled loyal readers. In "Ride the Moon Down", his most ambitious novel, the master storyteller again re-creates the fearsome and wondrous life of the free trappers of the Rockies.
Titus "Scratch" Bass, hero of Johnston's award-winning novel Carry the Wind as well as Crack in the Sky, finds himself an unwilling witness to the death of his way of life. By the end of the 1830s most trappers were simply giving up. Bass chose to fight, for a home in the mountains he loved, for his wife and family; he would fight with the Crow against their ancestral enemies, the Blackfoot; he would struggle with the scourge of smallpox that decimated the High Plains; and, finally, he would fight the bitter cold, the blazing heat and the manifold dangers of a land that was deadly as it was beautiful.
Synopsis
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 starring the king of the mountain men, Titus Bass.