Download or read book The Deliverance and The Fire Arrow written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deliverance and The Fire Arrow are two Skye's West novels by one of America’s greatest Western storytellers, Richard S. Wheeler, at one price. The Deliverance Barnaby Skye—trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure—and his Crow wife, Victoria, agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman on the Mexican frontier locate her two children; they were kidnapped by Ute Native Americans several years before and sold into bondage in Mexico. This impossible, dangerous, and foolhardy mission takes the three to Santa Fe and Taos, and into a strange association with an eccentric Texas adventurer who agrees to help them—for reasons of his own. The Fire Arrow When Blackfeet raiders attack Barnaby Skye and his wife Victoria in the midst of a cruel winter in the Rockies, the two are stranded in their frozen camp with no horses and little food. To save Victoria’s life, they must travel toward her home on the Musselshell River. But their journey is interrupted by a party of renegade white men with a wagonload of cheap and poisonous whiskey they intend to trade to the Native Americans—including Victoria’s people, the Crow. Skye is forced to assist the outlaws, but all the while, he plots to ruin their deadly enterprise. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Fire Arrow written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling with his Crow wife, Victoria, to her home, Barnaby Skye is pressed into service by a group of outlaws who intend to trade poisonous whiskey to Victoria's people. While he works with them, he plots to ruin their plans.
Download or read book The Deliverance written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnaby Skye, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy who has carved a career in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, drifts south to Mexican territory with his Crow Indian wife, Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria," as he calls her), in this thirteenth and newest of the Skye chronicles. At Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, the Skyes agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman, Standing Alone, locate her two children who were kidnapped by Ute Indians several years before and sold into bondage in Mexico. The mission, impossible, dangerous, and foolhardy to all Skye's friends, takes the three to Santa Fe and Taos and into a strange association with an eccentric, self-proclaimed Texas adventurer and filibuster, Colonel Childress, who agrees to help them for reasons no one can guess. Childress has a wagon decorated with a Jolly Roger, an enormous Clydesdale horse, and a pet spider monkey named Shine, whose nimble talent for stealing food and performing for coins saves the lives of Skye and his party on several occasions. But neither the colonel nor his simian can prevent the inevitable consequences of an uninvited foray into forbidden territory. The party is robbed and left naked in the desert by Apaches; Skye is taken prisoner and sentenced to hang; Childress seems to be a traitor but rescues Victoria and Standing Alone, and is determined to find Skye and free him from his captors. The Deliverance is the thirteenth in a series of early American West frontier novels featuring Richard Wheeler's Barnaby Skye, the most beloved and enduring character in modern Western fiction. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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 Dark Passage written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On deserting from a Royal Navy ship, sailor Barnaby Skye becomes a fur trapper in America. He marries an Indian woman, but she leaves him to become the second wife of an Indian chief. When another tribe abducts her, Skye goes to her rescue.
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 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 North Star written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th novel in Wheeler's Skye's West series features venerable mountain man Barnaby Skye. It is 1870, the fur business is dead, and white men are taking all the Indian lands. There is little gun smoke, but plenty of suspense, as Skye confronts brutal Texas cattlemen.
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 The Canyon of Bones written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnaby Skye acts as a guide to a wealthy Englishman who wants to see the wonders of the Missouri River Valley.
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 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: Mountain man Barnaby Skye and his Crow wife are back in Going Home and Downriver, two beloved installments of renowned Western writer Richard S. Wheeler's Spur Award-winning Skye's West series Going Home 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. 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 begin his journey home. But Skye is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men. The legendary frontiersman fights Mexican bandits, murderous Pacific coastal Indians, thirst, starvation, and despair as he learns where home really is and what honor really means. Downriver In the summer of 1838, the beaver-trapping business is dying out. When Barnaby Skye is offered a chance to become a post trader in his Crow wife's homeland, he makes the journey to St. Louis to present himself as a candidate for the job to the mighty managers of the Upper Missouri Outfit. The 2,000-mile voyage down the Missouri River steamboat Otter offers dangers at every turn--but the real danger lies in another passenger on the paddlewheel steamer, the Creole fur brigade leader Alexandre Bonfils. This nefarious man is a rival for the job Skye is seeking and is determined to be the only candidate by the time the Otter reaches the city. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
