Mountain Grown

In the mountains at the southern edge of Wyoming Territory, three families banded together in the mid-1800s and formed a community, raising livestock and garden produce. The founding family, the Welles, took excess livestock to trade with the pioneers along the Oregon Trail. This is the story of those families and the young people that are coming of age.

Central to the story is Jake Bates Welles, the oldest son of Sabra Welles and her first husband, Blue Knife, a Ute warrior. Now the adopte...