Caleb Johnson: Mountain Man: Back to Bear Creek

A Frontier Western Adventure (A Mountain Life Western Adventure, Book 1)

De: Charles Ray

Narrado por: Charles Kahlenberg

After saving former Confederate officer Ben Winthrop from a lynch mob, black mountain man, Caleb Johnson is talked into guiding him from Colorado to Oregon. He then lets himself be talked into spending two years there helping Ben get his ranch started. But he wants to get back to his little cabin near Bear Creek, Colorado, even though he’ll miss Ben’s wife, Wenona, the Shoshone princess, and her two sons.

Finally, though, Caleb puts his foot down. He saddles his horse, named Horse, and calls his dog, named Dog, and sets off for home, a journey that is anything but routine—or peaceful. It’s just normal chaos, though, until he gets to Wenona’s tribal village in Utah, and finds his Shoshone friend being threatened by a greedy rancher and land poacher who is moving to take over their traditional hunting ground. Now, Caleb’s a peace-loving man, but you just don’t threaten his friends. He’d planned to spend the winter with the Shoshone, and get rested up to resume his journey after the spring thaw.

But things have a way of changing.

©2020 Charles Ray (P)2025 Todd Barselow d/b/a Owlhoot Trail Audio

Excellent story complemented by superb narration

I got the audiobook via a promotional code from the publisher.

The author is an excellent storyteller, blending vivid descriptions with rich historical details.

Charles Kahlenberg's narration of this one was spot-on. Looking forward (hopefully) to further installments in this series.

Would highly recommend to anyone who is interested in the time period in the US when mountain men, the fur trade, and the West in general were such interesting and intriguing subjects.