Download or read book Downriver written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, Rocky Mountain trapper, and frontiersman extraordinaire, brings his Crow Indian wife, Many Quill Woman (whom Skye calls "Victoria"), to the trappers' rendezvous on the Popo Agie River of Wyoming in the summer of 1838. There, he learns that the beaver-trapping business is dying out. When he is offered a chance to become a post trader in Victoria'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 is a lesson in survival to Skye and Victoria. The river 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, with influential relatives in St. Louis, 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. Adding to Skye's problems is his rescue of a Cheyenne woman, Lame Deer, who needs to get to St. Louis to find her missing husband--a white man who has deserted her and their two children to marry into a prominent St. Louis family. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Sheriff s Wife written by Pat Pfeiffer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-11-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, historical figure Electa Bryan comes to a remote Indian Agency in what is now Western Montana to teach native children. Instead she finds deprivation and lonelinessuntil she meets suave, handsome Henry Plummer and falls hopelessly in love. Rejecting her sisters warning, she marries this stranger and moves to Bannack City. There, they pursue their vision of turning a primitive territory filled with greed, murder and mayhem into a civilized state, with Henry as governor. As sheriff, he is away from home most of the time enforcing the law, searching for a mysterious silver lode, or in the saloons. Electa is neglected and regimented, but blindly ignores the signs he is not all he seems, devotedly believing all he says. Until she meets Pearl. At Electas death in 1912, her son, Vernon Maxwell, inherits an eagle feather and a fortune. He sets out to learn why she left her husband so precipitously and why Henry was hanged for supposedly heading a gang of road agents who were killing innocent people and robbing gold shipment. What is the password he must know to secure his inheritanceHenrys stolen gold? More importantly, can he discover his mothers hidden past?

Download or read book Healy s West written by Gordon E. Tolton and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his incredibly varied fifty-year career, John J. Healy left an indelible mark on the Canadian and American west. At different points in his storied life, Healy was a soldier, a trapper, a prospector, a free trader, an explorer, a horse dealer, a scout, a lawman, a newspaper editor, a speculator, a merchant, a capitalist, a historian, and a politician. He defied classification while defining the lifestyle of a frontier adventurer and buccaneer capitalist in the late nineteenth century. In Healy’s West, Gordon E. Tolton cuts through the mythology and controversy of this larger-than-life character, giving us the most complete and truly balanced account of Healy’s life ever published. From Irish famine to army saddle; from scouting on the Oregon Trail to digging for mountain gold in Idaho; from taking on powerful monopolies to trading with the Blackfoot; from political manoeuvring to hunting down rustlers behind a sheriff’s badge, Healy challenged life, nature, enemies and, governments head on—in print, in business, and in physical combat. An entertaining and critical portrayal of the west’s most charismatic figure, Healy’s West is a must-read for any history buff.

Download or read book Birding Trails Montana written by Robbins, Chuck and published by Wilderness Adventures Press (Sandhill Crane Press). This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montana is one of the great birding states, from sandhill cranes to prairie chickens and sage grouse. From 100,000 snow geese at a time on Freezeout Lake to western bluebirds, glossy ibis, white-tailed kites, crested caracaras, Iceland gulls, Carolina wrens, curve-billed thrashers, and hundreds of other song birds. Montana is the best place for both great birding and wildlife viewing. Many of the birding hot spots also have a wide variety of wildlife including elk, antelope, moose, and grizzly and black bears. Chuck Robbins has spent 20 years traveling the state birding and wildlife watching. Chuck has divided the state into six regions: Glacier Country, Southwest Montana, Central Montana, Yellowstone Country, Missouri River Country, and Southeast Montana. Chuck describes each of the birding locations, the key birds, the best seasons for birding, and the area description along with driving directions and GPS coordinates. There are six regional maps showing the birding locations in each region, along with over 70 maps of individual locations. More than 100 outstanding color photos of key birds are included. Montana is the fourth largest state with less than 1 million residents, offering great uncrowded birding opportunities. With two national parks (Glacier and Yellowstone), thirteen national wildlife refuges, hundreds of wildlife management areas, as well as state parks and 40 Montana Important Bird Areas (IBAs) Montana is a must place for incredible bird and wildlife watching.

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 421 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 Flint s Truth written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Flint, a courageous editor of a weekly newspaper, fights to defend the helpless, the persecuted, and the humble--no matter the consequences to himself. In Oro Blanco, site of the richest gold strike in the New Mexico Territory, there are secrets galore--and men who would kill to keep it that way.

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.

Download or read book Rendezvous A Barnaby Skye Novel written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826, Barnaby Skye, a twenty-year-old pressed seaman, deserts his Royal Navy frigate at Fort Vancouver, escapes the minions of the Navy and the Hudson's Bay Company, and makes his way down the trackless Columbia River country alone.

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 The Deliverance written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Bent's Fort, Barnaby Sky and his wife agree to rescue Cheyenne children kidnapped by the Utes, with the help of one Colonel Childress and his spider monkey.

Download or read book The Far Tribes 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: There are many legends of great mountain men, hunters and trappers who manage to survive on their own in the harsh landscapes and forests of the West. The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry natives to the vicious beasts of the mountains, and the one name that all men of the frontier praise and whisper as if in prayer is Barnaby Skye. Elkanah Morse came west from Lowell, Massachusetts with one goal in mind: to study the ways of the far tribes. But entrance into their world is not easy. Only one man is capable of bringing him to the natives safely, only one man who knows exactly what to bring for trade. But Skye's advice is not enough. When rumors begin to spill that Morse is being held captive by one of the most vicious tribes in the mountains, Barnaby Skye feels compelled to take to the mountains and rescue the man . . . but he must face his most brutal battle yet.

Download or read book Children of Grace written by Bruce Hampton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) Indians gave instrumental help to Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition, they were rewarded by decades of invasive treaties and encroachment upon their homeland. In June 1877, the Nez Perce struck back andøwere soon swept into one of the most devastating Indian wars in American history. The conflict culminated in an epic twelve-hundred-mile chase as the U.S. Army pursued some eight hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children, who tried to fight their way to freedom in Canada. In this enthralling account of the Nez Perce War, Bruce Hampton brings to life unforgettable characters from both sides of the conflict?warriors and women, common soldiers and celebrated generals. Looking Glass, White Bird, the legendary Chief Joseph, and fewer than three hundred warriors waged a bloody guerilla war against a modernized American army commanded by such famous generals as William Tecumseh Sherman, Nelson Miles, Oliver Otis Howard, and Philip Sheridan. Hampton also gives voice to the Native Americans from other tribes who helped the U.S. Army block the escape of the Nez Perce to Canada.

Download or read book Vigilante Days and Ways written by Nathaniel Pitt Langford and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buffalo Commons written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awesome Projects from Unexpected Placesfeatures more than thirty projects designed by the users of instructables.com. These users have repurposed and reused everyday items they've found around their homes, in their backyards, or even in local junkyards to create unique furnishings and decorations for their homes and meaningful gifts for others. Equipped with the vision to not only see the latent potential and beauty in common items, but also the skills necessary to transform those objects into creative and new applications, these projects are at the core of the maker movement and can inspire us all. Readers of Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places will learn how to construct: Bottle cap tablesConcrete lamps3D string artSand fire gardensScrew-nut and wooden ringsParacord braceletsCigar box guitarsWooden beer mugsTest tube spice racksMetal rosesAnd more

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 Contributions written by Montana Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transactions, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, Ordinances, Officers and members.