Dead man's journey

"After losing his ship and his arm, ex-sea captain Alex Adamley decides to cross America with nothing more than a family deed to a Colorado mining claim, but when he arrives, he discovers that someone else is after the mine."@en
"As a sea captain, Alex Adamley would rather go down with his ship than survive it. Although his attackers spare his life, he loses his arm-and his passion for the sea. So he decides to cross the great American landscape with nothing but the clothes on his back and a family deed to an old Colorado mining claim."
"The Civil War took everything from Alex Adamley. He was once the captain of the blockade runner the SAVANNAH BELLE. He'd been crippled; left penniless; his ship destroyed and his home and family gone. Yet his dead brother had left him some property in the distant West. Alex determined to go and see this property. He started walking ever westward ... on a journey that would end in the toughest fight of his life. He was on a Dead Man's Journey."