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"Latigo Dykes, known as the Gentleman Bandit, never robbed a lady and always left a man enough to get by. With a dogged deputy U.S. Marshal on his trail, Latigo knows his days are numbered. He has only one wish before he ends up dead or in prison: to make amends with the son he left behind."--Cover flap.

In the wake of the death of his wife as she gives birth to his son, and the killing of his brother on the West Texas plains, John Kerney is forced to give up his ranch, leave his son behind, and strike out in search of the murderous outlaws and a place where he can start over. He drifts south until he meets a man who offers him work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory and forever changes his life.

This work brings an end to the eight-book epic adventures of frontier mountain man Titus Bass. In this final installment, Titus and his family rejoin his old friend, Shadrach Sweete, while fleeing the Taos Rebellion in the 1840s. Together, they decide to head to the north, to Crow territory, where Titus' wife has family. Along the way they face dangers from the land, the weather, and, most of all, their fellow man. Perhaps the greatest dangers are from the followers of Brigham Young, who are migrating into the area and determined to clear the lands of unbelievers. Among the perils are joys, too, as Bass witnesses the birth of one daughter and is reunited with another.

Mountain man Titus Bass's vow to live in freedom takes him into encounters with Comanche, Apache, and Arapaho warriors, through the heat of the southwestern desert and the cold of the northern plains, as he helps a family stand against a Mexican army officer, chases horse thieves across the Yellowstone, and stands with a frontier town against the Comanche.