Growing up on the Grand Kankakee Marsh in the 1800s was a life that Tyler Tomas loved. Hunting and fishing with his grandpa filled his days. His best friend Wil would join him in adventures through the nearby forest. It was a perfect world until youth was left behind. Life brought Tyler Tomas from the Grand Kankakee Marsh to the Devil's Tower. Each turn on the trail took a bit of his innocence.
Life in the mountains had sheltered Beau Levesque from the realization of time passing. The next vista to view, or the satisfaction of overcoming a challenge, had been enough. With age came doubt of what he'd really accomplished. This doubt drove him to the Artic and back.His envy of those who had succeeded in creating a family left him with an emptiness that the next horizon wouldn't fulfill. The war between the North and South offers a purpose that brings him back east. Beau must decide: Should he fight for his southern roots, or join forces against them? Little does he know that coming events would make this question the least of his worries.
In 1840 the demand for beaver was gone, leaving the mountain men searching for another way to survive.