Chapter 1 - Buffalo

Robert Walton's first novel takes us back to 1976. Harry Thursday, a professor of archaeology at a small college in Colorado, joins Dagon, a fellow professor, on an expedition to find the tomb of an Inca King in the Chilean Andes, which ends with the discovery of a rich horde of precious gems and trinkets and an otherwise empty tomb.
Two years later, Harry is on vacation camping with his good friend and playwright, Conner in the mountains of north-west Wyoming. They come upon a bawdyhouse in the middle of nowhere and CJ, one of the girls, takes to Harry.
Things take a frightening turn when Harry and Conner leave the hotel in a hurry and their unexpected adventure begins just as a blizzard hits the area.