Leaving New York City in 1828 to search for treasure beyond the Mississippi, Nathaniel King must learn to survive in the wild, uninhabited Rocky Mountains, where he is faced with hostile Indians, hunger, and natural predators. Reissue.

In 1828, although the United States had only been in existence for fifty years, some cities were already bustling metropolises. Beyond the Mississippi River, however, lay a vast region unexplored by white men. There nineteen-year-old Nathaniel King and a rugged mountain man named Shakespeare McNair headed fro a rendezvous of trappers and fur traders in the Rocky Mountains. But hostile Utes and Blackfeet Indians pursued them relentlessly, determined to have their scalps. Despite the protection of a friendly band of Shoshone, Nathaniel and his companion faced a peril that might mean not the end of the quest for freedom, but the end of their lives.

In 1828, the Rocky Mountains were an immense, unsettled region through which few white men dared to travel. Only courageous mountain men like Nathaniel King were willing to risk the unknown dangers for the freedom the wilderness offered. But while attending a rendezvous of trappers and fur traders, King's freedom was threatened when he was accused of murdering several men for their money. With the help of his friend Shakespeare McNair, Nathaniel had to prove his innocence. For he had not cast off the fetters of society to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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Nathaniel King is forced to make the daring rescues of his best friend, Shakespeare McNair, and then his own pregnant wife in savage Indian territories, in two stories of the epic struggle for survival in America's untamed West. Original.

In 1829, life west of the Mississippi was filled with constant peril and hardship. At any moment, a settler might find himself threatened by a murderous Indian or a deadly beast. Only rugged mountain men like Nathaniel King had the courage to challenge the unknown dangers for the freedom the wilderness offered. But when Nate and his mentor Shakespeare McNair made enemies of two Flathead Indians, their survival skills were tested as never before. If either man made one mistake, both would suffer merciless deaths.

Wilderness Series Book #8. In 1829, a new life in the vast unchartered region beyond the Mississippi River, was a cause for celebration, and fear. With wild beasts, lawless renegades, and hostile Indians enough to threaten even the bravest of men, a newborn had little hope for survival. Upon the birth of their first child, trapper Nathaniel King and his Indian wife, Winona, were overjoyed. But their delight turned to terror when Nathan accompanied the men of Winona's tribe on a deadly buffalo hunt. If King didn't return, his family was sure to perish. Read by Rusty Nelson. 5 CD's 5 Hrs.

Ignoring Indian legends that tell of a bizarre creature lurking in the depths of a secluded valley, Nate leads a hunting expedition into the area and pays for his ignorance in blood.

pLife in the savage Rockies was not easy on Nathaniel King and other courageous mountain men who dared to settle there. Every day, wild animals, treacherous Indians, or brutal elements threatened their very existence. With all these dangers, Nate never expected any trouble from a missionary bent on converting the hostile tribesmen. But when the Reverend John Burke was trapped in perilous Blackfoot territory, Nate had to save the man, or he'd bear the brand of a coward until the day he died.

Threatened daily by hostile native Americans and cutthroat frontiersmen, Nathaniel King nonetheless agrees to lead a group of pioneers through the treacherous mountains and discovers a terrible secret about the people in his charge. Original.

With murderous cutthroats and vicious beasts threatening settlers, intrepid pioneer Nathaniel King risks all to journey with his family to the southern Rockies. Original.

When mountain man Nathaniel King promises a dying Ute warrior that he would find the man's son, he has no idea that he will soon confront an enemy unlike any he has ever faced. For his trail will lead him and his family straight into the clutches of a mysterious, hidden tribe—a tribe that no white man has ever seen and lived to describe.

The brutal wilderness of the Rocky Mountains can be deadly to those unaccustomed to its dangers. So when a clan of travelers from the hill country back East arrive at Nate King's part of the mountain. Nate is more than willing to lend a hand and show them some hospitality. He has no way of knowing that this clan is used to fighting—and killing—for what they want. And they want Nate's land for their own!

When a young half-breed named Zach King invites him back to his family's secluded valley in the Rocky Mountains, which is filled with a vast array of unidentified wildlife, naturalist Robert Parker has a run-in with three murderous prospectors who have it in for the King family. Original.