The Big Sky Books in Order

Boone Caudill leaves Kentucky for the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, joining Jim Deakins and Dick Summers in a life of trapping and exploration. Wilderness freedom draws him deeper into a harsh world that reshapes his loyalties.

Returning to the West in 1846, frontiersman Dick Summers guides a wagon train from Missouri toward Oregon. The settlers face a difficult passage through unfamiliar country, testing their endurance and the hopes that sent them west.

In Montana's cattle country of the 1880s, Lat Evans pursues prosperity among ranchers driven by love and ambition. His good intentions face pressure from a demanding landscape and the human weaknesses that accompany his rise.

Indiana teacher Benton Collingsworth arrives in the isolated Montana community of Arfive, where a new school promises change. His friendship with rancher Mort Ewing and clashes with frontier customs trace a town's uneasy adjustment to a changing world.

Between the world wars, a Montana community confronts changes threatening its landscape and way of life. Newspaper publisher Ben Tate and his older friends resist destructive ideas of progress while working to preserve the values that hold their town together.

Dick Summers returns to a changing western landscape, seeking retribution from Boone Caudill and renewed companionship with Teal Eye. As the open country he loves begins to disappear, his personal reckoning unfolds alongside the erosion of frontier life.