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Vardis Fisher captured both the romantic idealism and harsh realism of the wilderness experience with this classic tale of the west (which served as the inspiration for the Sidney Pollack/Robert Redford film, Jeremiah Johnson). In the intertwined tales of Sam Minard and Kate Bowden, Fisher weaves a violent and poignant tale of love and loss, revenge and forgiveness.

The death of Meriwether Lewis is one of the great mysteries of American history. Was he murdered at Grinder's Stand or did he commit suicide? Vardis Fisher meticulously reconstructs the events and presents his own version of the case with the precision and persuasiveness of a fine trial lawyer. But Fisher was also a great novelist and it is his sense of character that serves him best here. We know Lewis' complex sensibility as well as we know that of any man of his time-his Journals are so self-revealing, so exacting in the record they make of his musings, doubts, and elations. Fisher offers...