Johnston, Terry C. Titus Bass. #bk. 7

Read by Alex Boyles

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. A new dawn was rising over the vast, once uncharted territories west of the Mississippi. And for the original trailblazers like Titus Bass-bold, resourceful men who dine on buffalo meat, trade in beaver pelts, and live among the warrior bands-the world will never be the same. Traveling with his wife and infant daughter, Bass heads north into Crow territory. But what should have been a joyous reunion with his wife's people turns to tragedy when Bass's family is kidnapped by the warring Blackfoot. A deadly outbreak of smallpox, brought west by the white man, threatens both Indian nations with annihilation. And another kind of epidemic-this one of greed-brought by two powerful, profit-hungry trading outfits will determine the fate not only of free trappers like Titus Bass-but also the destiny of the entire nation. "Mountain man/trapper Titus 'Scratch' Bass…watches his fiercely loved Big Sky country fade but hopes to hang onto the old ways…Fans will not be disappointed." "The continuing saga of Titus Bass provides readers with a genuine sense of frontier life and the hardships of the very earliest settlers in the context of an epic adventure. Bass is a near-mythic Davy Crockett-like character, but author Johnston imbues him with Everyman emotions, which makes his despair over the loss of his loved ones genuine."

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