For trapper Cleve Bennett and his Cheyenne wife, their dreams – and their very survival – urge them westward, over the high mountains to California. The once-plentiful supply of beaver in the eastern Rockies is in rapid decline, and they must now seek a new and more bountiful future. But the trail up-country leads into a harsh land of forbidding danger from primitive tribes, unscrupulous trappers, and the brutal forces of nature itself. Cleve is determined to face any hardship, meet any challenge to reach his destination...and his destiny. For the untamed wilderness belongs only to those who have the courage, the will, and the passion to seize it as their own.