by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 448 pages, 6" x 9". The thrilling saga of Titus Bass continues as one of the most beloved characters in historical American fiction must watch the end of his mountain man way of life. By the endof the 1830’s most trappers were simply giving up. Bass chose to fight, for a home in the mountains he loved, for his wife and family. He would fight with the Crow against their ancestral enemies, the Blackfoot; he would struggle with the scourge of smallpox that decimated the High Plains; and, finally, he would fight the bitter cold, the blazing heat and the manifold dangers of a land that was as deadly as it was beautiful.