Jedidiah Frank Stewart left his home in Missouri at age fifteen and headed west to become a mountain man. During his travels to Colorado, he saved a wounded Pawnee Indian and spent a winter living with the man's tribe. He worked as a cattle drover, and then as an Indian scout for the Frontier Regiment in Texas before heading to the Rockies.After making it to the Rocky Mountains, he met an old mountain man who showed him how to survive in the wilderness...