A trader at rendezvous relayed a story to Jack about a man and a boy that were looking for a Jack McClain. The trader said the mans name was Zeb Bentley, and the boy was his sisters son. He had made her a promise before her death that he would try and find the boys father and get them together. The boys father was Jack McClain. Jacks mind went back to a small farm east of St. Louis and Lyla, sweet, beautiful Lyla. Jack and Trace traveled to St. Louis to meet the boy and hopefully take him to the mountains. John Royston was born on the plains of Kansas and moved to southern Idaho as a small boy. He grew up hunting fishing, with a love of the desert and the mountains. He developed an interest in the settling of the west and immersed himself in that era. The leaders into this new world were trappers and men of the mountains, a few gave so much.