The Frontiersman series

The Frontiersman series starts with the story of Jeb Stewart and then switches to Hannibal

Brinks. Hannibal traps in the Rockies, marries a beautiful Crow Indian maiden, leaves the

mountains to make his fortune catching and selling wild horses. He goes into partnership with

Stumpy Smith, they catch and sell feral horses, go to the Neutral Strip, round up cattle and take

them west to take advantage of the high cattle prices. Stumpy marries a young woman and both

men start families.

A Mountain man named Sidney Barfield loses his entire family to disease or Indians and leaves

the mountains. A young girl named Tipi Morris takes refuge in his cabin during his absence and

upon his return, they form a bond.

All the characters fight Comanche, Arapaho, rustlers, gunfighters, and swollen rivers. From The

Mountain Man – Hannibal Brinks, Tipi and the Mountain Man, Wild Horses and Longhorn

Cattle, Comanche Uprising, and The Hanging Tree, the action is non-stop and will leave the

reader wanting another story. For the full synopsis of each book, refer to a specific title below.

Jedidiah Frank Stewart left his home in Missouri at age fifteen and headed west to become a mountain man. During his travels to Colorado, he saved a wounded Pawnee Indian and spent a winter living with the man’s tribe. He worked as a cattle drover, and then as an Indian scout for the Frontier Regiment in Texas before heading to the Rockies.

After making it to the Rocky Mountains, he met an old mountain man who showed him how to survive in the wilderness. Jake met a white girl who was living with the Crow Indians in the Rockies. After Elizabeth Tuttle survived the massacre of her village and adoptive family, Jake brought her out of the mountains with the Cheyenne hot on their heels. 

Jake gets Elizabeth settled in Denver, Colorado, and finds work as a teamster. He later became a U. S. marshal and in due time married Elizabeth. They have children and Jake gets into one scrape after another as he chases bandits and killers.

Hannibal Brinks left his boyhood home in Missouri – he was just sixteen years old.

He joined a small wagon train headed west. On the way, he met two brothers who were mountain men and traveled to the Rockies with them.

After he leaves, the wagon train encounters Arapaho horse thieves and then is attacked by a large number of hostiles. They hold off the Indians for two days until finally the hostiles withdraw.

Hannibal makes it to the Rockies, finds a wounded Indian girl named Morning Star, and nurses her back to health. She becomes his common law wife.

Hannibal, Morning Star, and the Macintyre brothers head for the rendezvous. While there, Hannibal is forced to kill two men while defending his wife.

Hannibal, his wife, and two friends, head back to the Rockies for an uncertain future. The price of beaver plews has plummeted and the mountain man's way of life is coming to an end. What to do next is the question.

Tipi Morris was a twelve year old girl and part of a wagon train headed west. She was up early and went into a draw, leading her foal, Sundance, to relieve herself and let him graze. While she was hidden from sight, Indians attacked the wagon train and killed everyone including her parents.

After the screams stopped and the Indians rode off, Tipi went to the wagons, and buried her parents. She scavenged everything she could find that was usable for the wagons and the Colt Baby Dragoon pistol and money that was hidden in her parent’s wagon.

Armed with the pistol and a fair amount of grit, she started walking north. She found and hid in a cave. She shot an Indian that was pursuing her with her pistol, and left him in the cave to be found by his friends, took his horse and rifle, and rode off.

She comes upon a cabin and some outbuildings. When the owner, mountain man Sidney Barfield, comes home, they form a friendship, and she lives with him in a grandfather/granddaughter relationship.

Together, they build a horse breeding operation, fight Indians, and the elements. 

Jacob “Stumpy” Smith left Missouri at age sixteen and made his way West. First on his own, then on a wagon train, and then by himself again.

Stumpy Smith and Hannibal Brinks met by chance while both were searching for feral horses. They formed a friendship that led to a partnership.

They rounded up feral horses, saddle broke them, took them to Bent’s New Fort, and sold them. After they amassed enough money to go into the cattle ranching business, they headed for Northwest Texas and the Neutral Strip to round up feral cattle.

After putting together a large herd of Texas longhorn cattle, Hannibal and Stumpy headed the herd for California. Comancheros kidnapped Hannibal’s wife, Morning Star, to sell in Mexico. Hannibal  set out alone to find and return her. After securing Morning Star and other girls release, Stumpy and Hannibal sold the cattle as planned, and headed back to Kansas Territory.

Now it was time to build a ranching operation.