This enthralling story opens on the frontier in 1832 as Big John McTavish and Gabriel Gilray, his metis protege, are out hunting. For thirty years now, Big John McTavish has been living with the metis at Pembina. The metis are a mixed-blood breed, originally descended from Crees or members of other Indian tribes, who crossed with French-Canadian or British trappers. While hunting, McTavish and young Gabriel Gilray save a mountain trapper named Pike...