Free Trappers — Robert M. Johnson

It is 1828, the early spring trapping season is fast approaching and Rocky Mountain life is getting ready for the snow melt off the high peaks. Soon the Mandan Indian wife of Sam Ogden will give birth to their first child, and the Mountain Man hopes against hope that he will be back from the taplines before the end of June when she will be delivering. In this story, the seventh volume of the Sam Ogden Mountain Man Series, young Sam and his Mandan wife, Little Fire are about to become a family. Sam and his Partner Clyde Patterson are Free Trappers, and this means they make their own decisions about where and for how long they will work their traplines. Sam and Little Fire have made some new friends at the settlement of Grand Junction, just a two-day ride from their mountain cabin. John and Kate Oliver own and run the General Store, formerly the Trading Post of Grand Junction. Their five years of living on the frontier have been satisfying and their store is thriving. Their one regret is that they have no children of their own. It seems the most natural thing in the world for the Olivers to adopt Sam and Little Fire and their baby. For the first time in his young adult life, Sam Ogden, Free Trapper, has a family to come home to in the white settlements! In this seventh volume of the Sam Ogden Mountain Man Series, Free Trappers, Sam, his wife and his partner, Clyde Patterson face the harsh challenges of frontier life, both in the wilderness and in the recently founded white settlement of Grand Junction, Colorado Territory. The Sam Ogden Series is as follows: 1. Hard to Kill 2. Winter Down 3. Rendezvous Prize 4. The Deerslayer's Destiny 5. Sam, My Warrior 6. Rocky Mountain Cabin 7. Free Trappers