Ride the Moon Down A Novel

Titus Bass, the hero of "Carry the Wind" and "Crack in the Sky, " finds himself an unwilling witness to the death of his way of life as a mountain man. But Bass chooses to fight for a home in the mountains he loves--against the Blackfoot, smallpox, and against the bitter dangers of a land that is as deadly as it is beautiful.

Terry C. Johnston is recognized as a master of the American historical novel. His grand adventures of the American West combine the grace and beauty of a natural storyteller with complete dedication to historical accuracy and authenticity. Johnston was born on the first day of 1947 on the plains of Kansas, and lived all his life in the American West. His first novel, Carry the Wind, won the Medicine Pipe Bearer Award from the Western Writers of America, and his subsequent books have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the country. After writing more than thirty novels, he died in March 2001 in Millings, Montana.