by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 624 pages, 4" x 7". The world of an early 19th century Kentucky farm proves to be too small a place for a boy with a vision as grand as that of Titus “Scratch” Bass. His wanderlust takes him to the Ohio River and into thefierce business world of old St. Louis, where he meets a veteran trapper, just returned from upper Missouri. Filled with the trapper’s captivating stories, he plans to set out the following spring to experience the wilderness lore firsthand. A trip to a fabled land frontiersmen call “the buffalo palace”.