A young man catches prairie fever, joins the traders of the Santa Fe Trail, rides a buffalo bull and reaches Santa Fé, where a fandango leads him to Seguin, leader of a band of scalp-hunters paid by the Mexican government. With trappers like the yarn-spinning Rube, he follows Seguin into Apache and Navajo country on a quest that is also personal.
A founding classic of the frontier adventure novel, violent and romantic, with the racial attitudes of 1851. Download the free EPUB.