From the frontier South to the brawling, bawdy streets of still-French St. Louis and awesome grandeur of the high plains, Lem Hawke was the greatest of the Big Sky Mountain Men. He lived hard, loved hard, and when he fought, it was war to the knife. Whether he battled Native Americans, rivermen or outlaws, it was always the same: he never backed away, and he never backed down. The Medicine Horn is the story of his life, loves, and violent wars--an epic tale of the Old West as big as the frontier and as rugged as the men and women who made it their own.