Richard S. Wheeler

On deserting from a Royal Navy ship, sailor Barnaby Skye becomes a fur trapper in America. He marries an Indian woman, but she leaves him to become the second wife of an Indian chief. When another tribe abducts her, Skye goes to her rescue.

Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies. In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow Indian wife, Victoria, is critically wounded when a Blackfeet raiding party attacks a Crow hunting camp. Despite Skye's attempts at doctoring, Victoria's life hangs in the balance as the two, left alone in the frozen wilderness, struggle...

Barnaby Skye agrees to act as a scout and translator for the U.S. Army at a meeting of the tribal chiefs, but his mission is threatened by an army officer's outrageous threats.

Robbed of his daughter and his horses by a war party of Lakota Sioux, Con Brann relies on guide and scout Skye to lead him across the Great Plains in search of his child.