"Mountain men Lemuel and Morgan Hawke have known violence back East, but nothing like the bloody brutality they will face in the rich fur-trapping forests of the High Rockies. Not only must they battle rivers that flood and freezing blizzards, they will confront the menace of evil men, murderous fur traders who will kill them for their boots--hell, for their heels--as well as face deadly warriors who are desperate to drive outsiders away from their lands. The two mountain men have entered a world of unparalleled bloodshed, where only the strongest survive and the weak inevitably perish. Will the two mountain men be tough enough to survive the killing ground of the High Rockies and return to civilization with their fortune in furs? Or will they, too, leave their bones and blood in that frontier wilderness?"--Page [4] cover.