Bannack is a story of adventure and self-discovery set in the time of the Civil War and vigilante violence.
Sixteen-year-old Billy Mayfair, kicked out of his home in Illinois by his father, sets out to find a fortune in gold in a remote mining camp in what would become the Montana Territory.
While in St.
Louis, he loses his money and virginity, gets in a fight and lands in jail.
But he manages to save enough working in a Union hospital caring for Civil War casualties to book passage on a str.