Wilderness (book series)

Wilderness (book series) is the generational saga of a mountain man and his Shoshone wife by American author David Robbins. The series has run for twenty years, making it one of the longest contemporary series written by a single author. The first title was published in 1990. New titles are published four times a year. To date there have been sixty-four regular books and seven Giant Editions. The series has received critical notice from the Pulp Rack, Western Fiction Review and others.

Premise

The series begins with young New York accountant Nathaniel King deciding to travel to the remote Rocky Mountains with his uncle, Zeke. (Robbins has said that the main character’s first name is an homage to James Fenimore Cooper and his hero of the Leatherstocking Tales, Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo) The books go on to relate Nate’s encounters with wild beasts and various tribes. He falls in love with a Shoshone maiden and builds a cabin for them in the area of what is now known as Estes Park, Colorado. They go on to have a son and a daughter and over the course of the first sixty books the son grows into manhood and marries a white woman, Louisa Clark, while the daughter, now in her teens, is going through the angst of young romance. The stories run the gamut from the realistic to the fantastical. In most, the narrative parallels the lives of the early mountain men but in several Nate King has adventures with lost tribes or creatures out of Indian legend. The series puts a stress on action and characterization.

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