The Long Ride
It’s 1865, and a band of renegade deserters left over from the American Civil War abduct newlywed Judith Johansen and head to the wilds of Rupert’s Land, soon to become Western Canada. They are about to find out that they have made a huge mistake. Judith is the granddaughter of Moses Munro, a wily old mountain man who survived as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains during the 1820s and ’30s.

Hatcher’s Legacy
It’s 1867 and the Munros have lost their entire homestead to a wildfire. The whole family—Moses, Grandma, Pa, Ollie, Judith, and newlyweds Jimmy and Celine—flee north and return to Rupert’s Land. Desperate for work, Moses, Jimmy, and Celine gratefully accept the offer to guide an expedition for an English professor looking for dinosaur fossils near the forks of the Red Deer and South Saskatchewan rivers.
