A mountain man and scout on a primitive frontier Tom Tobin was a fearsome opponent. This book describes his jouneys through Santa Fe, Taos and Colorado.

It is a story of stirring adventure, of hardship and of financial losses and profits. Webb was an unusual man, as were most of the traders of his day and since, and though thirty years elapsed from the time he began to recount his adventures, the memory of them remained undimmed.