Callum Shaw: Trapper: Dangerous Frontier
(2026)(The first book in the Dangerous Frontier Mountain Man series)
A novel by Richard Barris and C Wayne Winkle
In the killing cold of the upper Bitterroots, trapper Callum Shaw claws a prime beaver from black river ice—only to watch his world freeze solid when he and his wife Keta ride straight into Fort Defiance.
The post has been taken. Dragoons under a ruthless booshway named Pike hold twelve Shoshone captives, including a dying boy chained in the snow. One man. One woman. Seven plews. A jawbone tomahawk, a Green River knife, and four Newhouse traps.
That’s all they bring to war.
What follows is a brutal, single-couple siege across two blood-soaked nights: wolf traps in the snow, arrows in the dark, a powder-keg breach that lights the sky, knife fights in a burning crawlspace, and a final reckoning beneath a collapsing fort. Callum and Keta don''t fight for glory or gold. They fight because the mountain demands it—and because some debts can only be paid in lead and jawbone.
Raw, unrelenting, and carved from the true bone of the high country, Dangerous Frontier is a gut-punch mountain man epic for readers who still believe the frontier was won by men and women too stubborn to die.
Genre: Western
The post has been taken. Dragoons under a ruthless booshway named Pike hold twelve Shoshone captives, including a dying boy chained in the snow. One man. One woman. Seven plews. A jawbone tomahawk, a Green River knife, and four Newhouse traps.
That’s all they bring to war.
What follows is a brutal, single-couple siege across two blood-soaked nights: wolf traps in the snow, arrows in the dark, a powder-keg breach that lights the sky, knife fights in a burning crawlspace, and a final reckoning beneath a collapsing fort. Callum and Keta don''t fight for glory or gold. They fight because the mountain demands it—and because some debts can only be paid in lead and jawbone.
Raw, unrelenting, and carved from the true bone of the high country, Dangerous Frontier is a gut-punch mountain man epic for readers who still believe the frontier was won by men and women too stubborn to die.
Genre: Western
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