Grizzly Killer: The Making of a Mountain Man - Softcover

Warenski, Lane R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629186368 ISBN 13: 9781629186368

Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

When Zach Connors and his pa left their Kentucky homestead in the summer of 1824 to see the Rocky Mountains, he didn’t realize he would never see his childhood home again or that he would find love, friendship, fame, and a new home in this wild and harsh wilderness. After a grizzly kills his pa, Zach struggles to survive a cold and brutal winter alone. After killing a rouge grizzly and fighting hostile Indians on his own, he becomes known as Grizzly Killer and is respected throughout the West. Along with his dog, Jimbo, whom the Indians call the Great Medicine Dog, he finds Running Wolf, an injured Ute warrior, and together they fight off a hostile war party. They rescue two Shoshone sisters from the brutality of a French trapper and take them as wives. After Zach saves Running Wolf’s beautiful sister, Shining Star, he is expected to take her as a second wife, but his Christian beliefs conflict with the Indian traditions, and he struggles within himself to accept the Indian ways. Set in the rugged Uinta Mountains of Northern Utah, this is a story of survival against nature and hostile Indians and the clash of cultures between the Indians and mountain men that were the first to brave this uncharted wilderness, seeking their fortune from the pelts of the beaver.

About this title

About the Author:

Lane R. Warenski was born and raised in the great western state of Utah. He was raised being proud of his pioneer heritage and with a deep love and respect of the outdoors. He loves reading the history of the first explorers that came west, most of whom never dreamed they were opening this wild and rugged land to the pioneers and settlers that followed. Whether it was the daily journals of William Ashley and Jedediah Smith or the fictional stories written by the great storytellers like Louis L’Amour and Terry C. Johnston, throughout his life, he has been a voracious reader of the history of the West. Ever since childhood, following his father, he has hunted, fished, and camped the mountains of the West, dreaming of what it must have been like to be one of the first white men to set foot in this vast unknown wilderness. He lives in a log home in Duchesne County, Utah, where he has an unrestricted view of the highest peaks in the mighty Uinta Mountains.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1629186368
• ISBN 13: 9781629186368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 267