Sojourner: A High Country Frontier Short Story (The High Country Frontier)

Is solitude freedom or refuge?

Silas Hayes is a man in motion—traveling west through America on foot in 1850, earning coin with his fists, and guided by a quiet code. He has no use for towns or permanence, seeking what his father once called Saor ó dhaoine—freedom from people. He believes he might find it in the Utah Territory.

The high-altitude wilderness tests him wolves in the dark, rivers and mountains that demand hard choices.

When Silas meets Nora, a lone survivor on the trail, his solitude is unsettled. What lies ahead is no longer only a matter of survival, but of responsibility—and human connection.