<p>Terry Grosz returns to the unexplored American West in his ninth Mountain Man novel, &ldquo;Elliott &ldquo;Bear Scat&rdquo; Sutta, Mountain Man.&rdquo;&nbsp;<br />
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Sixteen-year-old Elliott Sutta is sent out by his father to kill a deer for future family meals. Killing the biggest deer in his life, Elliott&rsquo;s joy is short-lived when he is swooped down upon by a tornado, which &lsquo;whirls away&rsquo; his deer and leaves him battered and bruised without family or farm, all destroyed by the airborne killer.&nbsp;Elliott finds himself alone and soon hunted by old friends who realize that he has discovered a hoard of Spanish silver dollars hidden in his father&rsquo;s &ldquo;Posthole Bank&rdquo;!&nbsp;<br />
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Thus begins Elliott&rsquo;s adventures as a man and fur trapper in the wilderness, attempting to find his fur trapper brother Jacob. As a &lsquo;greenhorn&rsquo;, he finds himself betrayed by trappers posing as friends who soon abandon him on the prairie! There he faces starvation and then a chance meeting with a mentor occurs. In the years that followed, &ldquo;Bear Scat&rdquo; faces capture by the deadly Sioux, becomes a Mountain Man in the territory of the deadly Blackfeet, faces grizzly bear attacks, &lsquo;moose madness&rsquo;, deadly Indian battles, experiences heartaches in opportunities lost trying to find his elusive brother, is engaged in a deadly fight with white trappers resulting in a sad loss, all ending in an unexpected surprise!&nbsp;<br />
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Elliott &ldquo;Bear Scat&rdquo; Sutta, Mountain Man is an epic story of the life and times of a Mountain Man who rises from the ashes and tries to find his brother in an unexplored West that was young, dangerous and yet beautiful beyond compare, told only as a man can tell it who &ldquo;was there&rdquo;&hellip;</p>