Before the settlers moved into the far west; before the ranchers and farmers, the towns and the railroads; came the men of the trail, the wilderness men who brushed sleeves with death a dozen times a day and tamed the western woods! Their tragedy was that in opening the land to the settlers, they destroyed the life they loved best; the solitary grandeur of the rugged forests ! This is the true story of the foremost of all these giants of our past history.