Mountain Man (novel)

Set in the mid-1800s United States, it tells the story of Sam Minard, a hunter/trapper living and wandering throughout Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.

The novel is largely a fictionalized retelling of the experiences of the real mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson.

A lone woman is left alive, mourning the deaths of her two sons and daughter, and the kidnapping and scalping of her husband.

Sam helps the distraught woman bury her dead and even builds her a cabin, putting the word out to other "mountain men" to watch over her and supply her with necessities of life.

The sign left by the murderers indicates that members of the Crow tribe are responsible, and Sam sets out on a path of vengeance, vowing to kill every member of the tribe that killed his family.