Zach Hannah was a raw youth when he left the hill country of tennesse to seek his fortune in the West. In the year 1825, the distant Rockies offered all the wealth a man could want. The mad demand for beaver pelts spawned a booming fur trade that sent men to battle against the fury of nature, hostile Indian tribes, and evene each other in an adventure that only the strongest could survive. Zach Hannah took the challenge -- to learn the ways of the wild and those who lived in it ... to discover that white treachery could be as deadly as Blackfoot terror ... and to find passionate love with a beautiful Indian woman -- and a fight to the death to protect her ...
1993 by Jason Manning Signet Books (New York) 349 pp ISBN: 0-451-17680-4
The book that began a 14-year run with Signet Books, 24 novels in all and including five trilogies, the six-book Mountain series, the two Black Jacks book, and one stand-alone, Texas Bound. High Country began the saga of Zach Hannah which would continue in Green River Rendezvous and conclude with Battle of the Teton Basin. This was my best-selling novel to date.