Franklin Pierce was president of the United States in 1855, the
Mexican War had just ended; the horrors of the American Civil War
had not yet begun. The last of the free spirits known as the
Mountain Men were securing their place in the legends of the
frontier. Among these fierce adventurers was a man who called
himself Highpockets. Into the harsh wilderness Highpockets had come
to escape the soot of the cities and the terrible memories of war;
with nothing but the strength of his heart and hands he had carved
out a life of freedom in the nearly inaccessible high places of the
Rocky Mountains. In the autumn of his days Highpockets stumbled
across a half-frozen, half-dead immigrant boy who had wandered in
the snow and ice-terrified after having been separated from the
wagon train carrying his Eastern European family across the vast
new world. Highpockets called the boy Cub and took him to the
wilderness domain the old man called My Mountain. There, for one
long winter, they lived together; the young boy learned a new
language and a way of life that he'd never even imagined existed.
By the end of the winter, the old man knew that Cub had learned
everything he needed to know to survive in a land as dangerous as
it was awesomely beautiful. It would have to be enough and more
than enough . . . for at the end of that winter Highpockets had
agreed to face the council of his old enemy, Painted Elk, to atone
for the murder of the chief's son. Both Cub and Highpockets would
be judged by the council of Elders . . . and both would learn that
justice in the high places was both fair . . . and deadly.
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