He left Indiana with a rifle and a dream—now the mountains will decide his fate. Pathfinder Levi Beaver Johnson was born to the woods of southeastern Indiana, where he earned the nickname “Trapper Boy” long before he came of age. With a sharp eye and a steady hand, he became known as the best shot in the state—and the traps he built were second to none. But Levi wanted more than a reputation. He wanted the wild. So he left home and headed west, determined to become the mountain man he had always dreamed of being. His journey takes him to the frontier forts of Kansas, where he signs on as an army scout to earn his way into the Rockies and beyond. The road ahead is unknown, and danger waits at every turn. Rusty Steel At a frontier rendezvous, Levi and Captain Bill Forrester meet Rusty Steel, a rough-edged trapper with a past as wild as the mountains he now calls home. Alongside Rusty and his crew, Levi and the captain ride deep into the Western Rockies, where they find a compound of three cabins—home to seasoned trappers who’ve survived in the wilderness for decades. As Levi and Bill learn the brutal lessons of mountain life, they face a question every greenhorn must can they rise to the challenge, or will they fall like so many who came before? This two-book bundle, including Pathfinder and Rusty Steel, tells the origin of Levi Johnson’s rise from greenhorn to mountain man. Get your copy today and ride into the unforgiving West—where legends are born in blood, brotherhood, and wilderness.
Author
Ash Lingam is an Amazon Best Selling Author. He has written over one hundred novels and short stories in the Western genre. He has published nine series about the Texas Rangers, US Marshals, and Bounty Hunters, and his new additions to the Frontier & Pioneer Western Fiction—the Mountain Men series. Ash was born on a ranch in the Midwestern United States. It was during a time when Westerns were magical both at the movies and on television. As a boy, he collected Indian arrowheads in the fields and rode his horse, Sugar, in the woods as he played cowboys and Indians. From age twelve, he hunted to put food on the family table when his grandpa, Pop, gave him his first double-barrel shotgun—at eight taught him how to trap in our ponds and the creeks at the end of our property. Growing up in the country with horses and guns made the transition to an author of the Old West an effortless journey. Some say Ash Lingam is the fastest writer in the West. Ash says; When inspiration hits me, from when I open my eyes in the morning until I fall asleep at night, I let my fingers dance across the keyboards, anxious to see what will happen next in the story in my mind’s eye. Ash Lingam
