To Face a Savage Winter

<p><strong style=color: rgba(44 54 58 1)>THE PREVIOUS TWO WINTERS HAD BEEN HELLACIOUS . . . THIS ONE WOULD BE SAVAGE</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(44 54 58 1)>The third winter in the Rocky Mountains was not the charm for mountain man Hawley Cooper. What started out as a prime beaver trapping season turned forbidding as another winter beckoned and settled into the Absaroka Mountains. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(44 54 58 1)>A war party of Crows raided his camp and ran off with his wife a Shoshoni named Black Moon Woman. Left without a horse Cooper follows the Crows as best he can but soon realizes that with winter laying its frigid hand on the land he would never catch the warriors on foot.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(44 54 58 1)>Refused help by the Shoshonis he gets a horse and heads out alone into the heart of winter again searching the Bighorn Mountains hoping to find the Crows bent on rescuing his wife-or avenging her death.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(44 54 58 1)>Winter isn't forgiving and neither is he...</strong></p>