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Skye's West volume 12
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English
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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...
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Skye's West volume 14
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English
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Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies.
In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow Indian wife, Victoria, is critically wounded when a Blackfeet raiding party attacks a Crow hunting camp. Despite Skye's attempts at doctoring, Victoria's life hangs in the balance as the two, left alone in the frozen wilderness, struggle...
3) Snowbound
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English
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This novel is based on the experience of American explorer John Frémont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, when he becomes trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains and must fight his way out.
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Skye's West volume 17
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English
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Pursuing a new life away from Montana's Crazy Mountains, Barnaby Skye, his Indian wives, and his son search for missing family members while the government and settlers continually push their tribe through Missouri and Wyoming.
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Skye's West volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
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"Mountain man Barnaby Skye is on the run in the 1826 Columbia River wilderness. Hired mercenaries, the British military, and some of the most brutal warriors in all the American Northwest are on Barnaby's trail. He and his fellow fur trappers are locked in the most violent struggle of their lives, surrounded on all sides by bloody killers who take no prisoners and who are hell-bent to destroy them, particularly the young mountain man Barnaby Skye....
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Skye's West volume 3
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English
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"The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry warriors 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 went 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 native peoples safely, only one man who knows exactly...
11) Aftershocks
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake through the eyes of the local people. For some it was a disaster, for others an opportunity, the latter including an architect and a woman photographer.
12) Flint's gift
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English
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The adventures in the Old West of Sam Flint, the owner of a newspaper in a district where there is fighting between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. When some gunmen invade the town, Flint joins forces with a rancher to fight them, an uneasy alliance as both men are in love with the same woman.
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Series
Skye's West volume 5
Publisher
Forge, Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bitterroot: "Mountain man Barnaby Skye agrees to take a Quaker missionary, Dr. William Penn Sitgreaves, along with his wife Abigail and his party, to Owen’s Fort in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. There, the Quakers intend to begin a mission to the Native Americans. Skye quickly discovers that Dr. Sitgreaves, far from being a soft man, has a backbone of steel-and he’ll need it to found a mission in the wilds." --Amazon.com.
Sundance:...
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Skye's West volume 14
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
�2006
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a cruel winter in the Rockies, Barnaby Skye's Crow Indian wife is critically wounded during an attack by Blackfeet. The raiders leave Skye and Victoria stranded in their frozen camp with no horses and little food. When, miraculously, two horses wander into the camp, Victoria believes they have received a gift from her spirit helper. Soon she and Skye are able to travel toward Victoria's home on the Musselshell River. Their journey...
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Series
Skye's West volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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,...