Joe Wise
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
On a spring day in 1874, a reporter for Harper's Weekly traveling with a surveying party on a wilderness road through a remote mountain valley in Colorado's San Juan mountains, wandered onto an abandoned campsite where he found the mutilated and rotting bodies of five men. Immediately a search began for Alfred Hammit (Packer), a hapless drifter and the sole survivor of the ill-fated prospecting expedition, suspected of murdering the five men and living...
3) In the Moro
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
One snowy fall in the early 1840's, John C. Fremont and his crew of thirty-three men headed to the high country of Colorado. Their mission: to survey the rugged San Juan Mountains for a railroad route. Instead, they found snow up to their shoulders, bone-chilling cold, and - except for Fremont and his guide - death. In the Moro is based on that disastrous Fremont Fourth Expedition which occurred exactly 150 years ago during the winter of 1848-49....