Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley courtesy of Open Road.tBlevins’ novel traces the lift of Crazy Horse from young adult hood to his death. Unlike many writers, Blevins does not fall into the trap of making any one character or race too saintly or too demonized. tWhen the reader first meets Crazy Ho...
In following the white man's road, Joseph Blue Crow has lost his Lakota heritage and is haunted by the loss. After the inexplicable suicide of the woman he loves, and as he sinks into alcoholism and despair and stands on the precipice of suicide, his best friend tells him, "You got to go on the m...
The first Super Edition of the bestselling series that has more than one million copies in print. When mountain trapper and gambler Flare O'Flaherty agrees to lead a group of missionaries down the treacherous Snake River, he faces the greatest challenge of a wandering man's lifetime in the form o...
Asie Taylor is a half-blood Indian raised by Mormons, a gifted musician and a sharp-tongued philosopher; Sun Moon is a Tibetan nun who has been kidnapped and sold into prostitution in California. Each is on the run--Asie toward his heritage and the secret of his "Rock Child" name, Sun Moon from h...
The last in a series that I have to read, great story of sacrifice and love. As a young man Sam Morgan set out on the advice of a friend, Hannibal to follow his dreams, in the previous volumes he became trader, a traper, an adventure, he has done a sundance to make up for a mistake, and fought in...
”Beautiful. Blevins brings it all alive.” – The Los Angeles Times Son of Sacajawea, the guide for Lewis and Clark, Charbonneau was born on the adventure. Born to explore. He was also raised in William Clark’s posh society, educated in Europe, and the welcome guest of kings and brilliant men. Char...
Sam Morgan, once a young runaway from Philadelphia, now a seasoned fur trapper and mountain man, faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life. It is 1827 and he, together with the trapping brigade commanded by Jedediah Smith, has been expelled from Mexican California. To his unending so...
John glared down at us from the summit near the cabin. He didn’t say a thing about her face, or the dance, but you could see him adding it up in his head. “You are really something,” he said, making it half praise and half mockery. She said, “Yippee ki-yay, cowboy.” “My cabin,” he said, and strod...
Don’t eat without feeding something to the fire, or you’ll never be rich. —Navajo saying A thousand miles and one universe from San Francisco In the darkness Winsonfred Manygoats had a seeing. It was a flash of light, and he saw it not with his ordinary eyes but with his spirit eyes. A flash of...
A fresh, damp smell lifted up off the river, a promise of a blessing as evening came to the desert. A breeze stirred among the willow branches along the banks. The finger-shaped leaves caught the light of the sun and tossed it, red-gold-green, into the soft evening air. Along the top ridges the c...
And his father. Smith and Thomas first rode to Platte Bridge Station to meet Peddler. Peddler was heading north into Powder River country to trade with the Sioux, pulling his cart, and Smith wanted to escort him. Smith thought Peddler was mad to be traveling alone. It made...
“You better have something to say,” she snapped in English, “and quick.” He kept pulling her away from the circle, where the people were dancing. Calling Eagle had been given a new name, Sings Wolf, and everyone seemed disgustingly elated. Elaine had tried to sit through t...
Spotted Tail must have told Little Thunder of his decision privately, but he never mentioned it otherwise, not even within the lodge. In the way that village people have, everyone knew, and whispered about it. Some of the men muttered disputatiously. “I wouldn’t do that,” said one. “Let the Wasp ...
EMPTY. MOUNTAINS well off to the west, mountains well off to the east. Big river in the middle, with desert scrub all around it. No sign of the brigade. Sam was sure his count was right, or close. It was April 14, or maybe a day or two later. The phases of the moon, full, half, and new, had made ...
“You all right?” “Yes, yes. But I’d like to speak with her right away,” Wright said. “Will you please escort me to a telephone?” “Absolutely.” Mose stirred himself and climbed into the same clothes he’d been wearing for a few days. He was a mess. As soon as he passed a mirror, and there are loads...
His mind whirled a little, and he commanded it to stop. The music, yes, the infernal wailing-chanting, quavering high in the scale, sliding melismatically downward and softer, sailing high again, bursting up, then arcing down, like the howl of a wolf. But more grating, by far, than a wolf’s cry, ...
He felt it, sometimes, like this; he could sense that in a few moments the sun, like a bubble of air that has risen from the bottom of a lake, would burst silently over the ridge to the east. He got up quietly from his buffalo robe, not disturbing the two squaws who slept nearby, and walked to th...
That kid hadn’t reported in and was sitting at Louie’s mess like nothing had happened and was with that…damned stray dog Things were going badly for Tom Fitzpatrick. His fledgling fur company was saddled with back-breaking debt. He hadn’t gotten to St. Louis in time to get his friends to freight ...