Earthbound

He bigger than the average bear and twice as strong. His world had condemned him and plans to abandon him on a primitive planet. He managed to wrest control of the spaceship from the others, but he doesn't possess the knowledge to make a return flight. Until then he must survive on a place called Earth. He hides the ship in a land called Texas and chooses the name MacDonald. As MacDonald he joins forces with a fur trapper named Rolfe during a barroom fight. They are trappers until the fur trade collapses. They try their hand at trading and the Kiowa wipe them out. That leaves ranching in Texas before the time of the cattle drives. This is MacDonald's adventure and his rescue of a woman from the Comanche. Will they survive plague, the enmity of their Southern neighbors, and the Civil War. Read Earthbound for a saga of a determined man and woman.