Download or read book The Canyon of Bones and North Star written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Skye's West novels by Spur Award-winner and legendary Western writer Richard S. Wheeler in one volume. The Canyon of Bones Mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work guiding wealthy Englishman Graves Mercer on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer has come to the American wilderness seeking thrilling, preferably salacious, material for British tabloids. He takes an ancient bone that's sacred among certain tribes—and the act may cost the party their lives. North Star Barnaby Skye faces radical change as the wilderness vanishes, buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation land. His family's struggle to adapt takes them from Montana to Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains.
Download or read book The Canyon of Bones and North Star written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Skye's West novels by Spur Award-winner and legendary Western writer Richard S. Wheeler in one volume. The Canyon of Bones Mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work guiding wealthy Englishman Graves Mercer on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer has come to the American wilderness seeking thrilling, preferably salacious, material for British tabloids. He takes an ancient bone that's sacred among certain tribes—and the act may cost the party their lives. North Star Barnaby Skye faces radical change as the wilderness vanishes, buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation land. His family's struggle to adapt takes them from Montana to Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book North Star written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a season for all things. . . For Barnaby Skye, legendary guide and man of the borders, it is time to start a new life. For Skye's younger wife, the beautiful Shoshone woman he calls Mary, it is time to find the beloved son she has not seen in seven years. For Skye's half-blood son, North Star, it is time to discover who he is. And for Skye's older Crow wife, Victoria, the whole world is spinning out of control. In this sweeping novel of the early West, Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation lands. How can people born and bred to tribal life learn to live another way? Their struggle takes the Skyes from the Crazy Mountains in Montana to St. Louis and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains - a tide that leaves no good place for a veteran borders man with two Indian wives and a mixed-blood son. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Canyon of Bones written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the trapping trade on the decline, mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work as a guide, leading a wealthy Englishman, Graves Duplessis Mercer, and two companions on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer is a peculiar employer. He has come to the American wilderness seeking weird, morbid, thrilling, preferably slightly salacious, material to write up for British tabloids. He has little interest in such amazing natural phenomena as the geysers of the Yellowstone country but is adept in ferreting out stories of cannibalism and similar atrocities. To the Briton's disappointment, Skye has none of these to offer but does agree to take him to a Missouri River valley where gigantic bones of ancient monsters thrust out of canyon walls. Skye's Crow Indian wife, Victoria, warns that the bones are sacred among certain tribes, but Mercer insists on taking a "trophy" – a tooth from a tyrannosaurus-like fossil. This act nearly costs the lives of Mercer's party and its guide, Barnaby Skye. Wheeler's Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the Royal Navy who becomes a legendary mountain man, has been called "the Horatio Hornblower of the Rocky Mountains." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Going Home and Downriver written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going home: Barnaby Skye is a "free trapper" in the Rockies. With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric botanist named Alistair Nutmeg, and a stray dog, Skye makes his way west to begin the long journey home to England. Fighting Mexican bandits and Pacific coast Indians along the way, battling thirst and hunger, Skye learns where home really is and what honor really means. / Downriver: At the trapper's rendezvous in Wyoming, in 1838, Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, is offered an opportunity to become a post trader in his Crow Indian wife's homeland. He begins the journey to St. Louis to present himself as a candidate for the job and undergoes a lesson in survival on a Missouri River steamboat.
Download or read book The First Dance written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working as a civilian translator for the army in late-nineteenth century Montana, Dirk, the son of Barnaby Skye, is perplexed by his wife's disappearance after their wedding ceremony and accompanies the Métis people during their painful relocation to Canada.
Download or read book Rendezvous A Barnaby Skye Novel written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnaby Skye, a pressed seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back and a belaying pin for a weapon. Fighting for life, starving, hiding from his pursuers--the Hudson's Bay Company and the British Navy--he follows the Columbia River inland toward a fate he never anticipated. In a trapping brigade, Skye falls in with legendary mountain men such as Jim Bridger and Tom "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick and in the fabled Rocky Mountains finds another unexpected turn in his life when he meets the Crow maiden, Many Quill Woman, who will become his wife. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Snowbound written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting novel about hubris and its consequences (Larry McMurty), "Snowbound" tells of one man's epic struggle for survival in the mountains of Colorado.
Download or read book Snowbound and Eclipse written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two stories of renowned American explorers in one low-priced edition, from master of the western novel Richard S. Wheeler Snowbound American explorer John Frémont embarks on a quest to find a railway route to the west along the 38th parallel. His fourth expedition, into the American west in the dead of winter, proves more challenging than anticipated. Trapped, snowbound, in the Colorado mountains, Frémont must battle the frigid elements in a harrowing journey over the backbone of the continent. This novel of desperate danger and fierce courage is a survival saga par excellence—a struggle of man against man, man against nature, and man against himself. Eclipse Lewis and Clark made history with their epochal first crossing of the North American continent. Upon their return, plain-spoken William Clark enjoys his fame, marries his childhood sweetheart, and settles in St. Louis as superintendent of the nation's Indian affairs. His black manservant, York, forces him to confront the nature of slavery and question the society that condones it. Meriwether Lewis, a man of courage and brilliant intellect, returns from the Pacific a changed man. Something terrible has happened to him, a disease with no name that erodes his health and threatens to destroy his mind—and his honor. Eclipse is an exploration of triumph and tragedy told in the authentically rendered voices of two of the greatest American explorers. This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.
Download or read book Easy Pickings and The First Dance written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy pickings: A widow must defend herself and her property from greedy townsfolk. The first dance: Barnaby Skye's mixed-blood son, Dirk, has just married a M©♭tis girl, Therese, but his position as a civilian translator for the U.S. Army threatens to shatter their union.
Download or read book Anything Goes and The Richest Hill on Earth written by Richard S Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anything goes, Ã2015; The richest hill on earth, Ã2011.
Download or read book Easy Pickings written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widow must defend herself and her property from greedy townsfolk in Easy Pickings, a new tale from renowned master of the Western novel, Richard S. Wheeler Life hasn't always been easy for March and Kermit McPhee, but things are looking up. March gives birth to a healthy son, and their small gold mine is looking better and better as Kermit blasts his way along a good seam of ore. Then Kermit is crushed by a cave-in. As soon as her husband dies, crooks are at March's door, eager to get their hands on the mine. The peaceful town of Marysville, Montana, is peaceful no more. March's home is burned and her baby killed. Terrified and threatened, she is targeted by the wealthy and powerful. March fights back every way she can. She discovers she has allies: a saloon man named Tipperary Leary, an assayer named Rolf Wittgenstein, and a slippery lawyer named Hermes Apollo. Still, March must ask herself whether it is worth it; whether a gold mine, or wealth of any sort, should be defended at such a price. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Anything Goes written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troupe of fading vaudeville performers travels the remote mining towns of Montana and struggles to keep its audiences entertained until it is joined by a mysterious singer who triggers their flight back East.
Download or read book The Richest Hill on Earth written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the West's most beloved writers sets his sights on the war of the Copper Kings in late 19th-century Montana, and their struggle for control of the Orichest hill on Earth.
Download or read book Rendezvous and Dark Passage written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two complete novels in one low-priced ebook edition from beloved Western author Richard S. Wheeler: Rendezvous and Dark Passage Rendezvous Barnaby Skye, a seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back. Fighting for life, he heads inland toward an unknown fate. Skye falls in with legendary mountain men, and finds another unexpected turn in his life when he meets the Crow maiden, Many Quill Woman, who will become his wife. Dark Passage In 1831 Skye accompanies his wife to her village, where she falls in with Jim Beckwourth and accompanies him on a raid among the Blackfeet. When she's abducted by the Bloods, the deadliest band of Blackfeet, Skye trails her into Canada, where he's still wanted for deserting his ship four years ago. Then Sky himself is taken prisoner, and Victoria must escape her captors to free the man she loves. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Owl Hunt written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wheeler delivers the latest installment in the long-running and much-loved Skye's West series, featuring mountain man Barnaby Skye.
Download or read book Going Home written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2001-11-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1832, six years after he deserted the Royal Navy, when Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of a lifetime begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him. With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric botanist named Alistair Nutmeg, and a strange pariah dog following along, Skye makes his way west to Fort Vancouver in the Oregon country to begin his journey home. He is adept at dodging Blackfeet war parties and staving off starvation, but when the Hudson's Bay ship Cadboro makes a stopover in Mexican California, Skye's luck-generally bad to begin with-runs out. In Going Home, Skye fights Mexican bandits, murderous Pacific coastal Indians, thirst, starvation, and despair, as he learns where home really is and what honor really means. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
