This book is about the last great manhunt of the Old West which began on the morning of June 9, 1902, when Harry Tracy and David Merrill shot their way out of the Oregon State Penitentiary. They then left a trail of dead and wounded accross the Northwest. Seventeen-year-old Sherman Edwards grabbed a rifle and joined the hunt, swearing revenge on the man who crippled his father. On the 58-day odyssey across Oregon and Washington, Sherman encountered the best and worst of people. He also made a lifelong friend and discovered a new love. Award-winning author John Dashney spent over a year researching old newspaper files to create a novel that blends fictional and historic figures in his story. True to the recorded facts, Dashney has created a vivid picture of the Pacific Northwest at the dawn of the twentieth century.