Skelly Gulch

At a young age of only fourteen Nicolas Skelly runs away from his parents home in Iowa. He secretly hitches a ride with a wagon train that is heading west to Oregon. Nicolas always dreamed about becoming a mountain man and took the only opportunity available to reach the mountains. Each day brings new adventures. His life is an adventure that most people only dream about, but few ever experience. He has hard times, good times, times when his thoughts are the only thing he clings to too keep his sanity. He even finds love and is forced to decide what his true love really is. The imagination of the author takes you back in time to the mid eighteen hundreds. A time when men were rugged and had to become one with nature to even survive. Each page brings you into a world that made history a reality.