TRAIL BOSS

to find that belt buckle at all costs! His mentor is a mountain man named Buckknife, who also is on an elusive quest, seeking gold from the Black Hills. Through Couter s stories, his drovers learn what it is like to feel emptiness, bitterness and loss as well as maintain hope that somehow, dreams can become reality. This quest takes Couter from the booming lumber town of Stillwater, Minnesota and the rugged St. Croix River Valley in the 1850 s to Kansas and the Black Hills of Dakota Territory during a turbulent time when the government was rounding up the native Sioux and Wild Bill Hickok was a well known reason to visit the card tables!