While America is still a wild land, tough mountain men like dare to venture into the majestic Rockies. And though he battles endlessly against savage enemies and hostile elements, his reward is a world unfettered by the corruption that grips the cities back east. Then Nate's young son disappears, and the life he has struggled to build seems worthless. A desperate search is mounted to save Zach before he falls victim to untold perils. If the rugged pioneers are too late—and Zach hasn't learned the skills he needs to survive—all the freedom on the frontier won't save the boy.

Relive the days of early American pioneers – the trappers, the mountain men and the fur traders. Wilderness is a generational saga of a mountain man, his Shoshone wife and family, factually orientated (as much as humanly possible). The series has run for over twenty years, making it one of the longest contemporary series written by a single author.