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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...
2) Snowbound
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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 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...
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Skye's West volume 14
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Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
�2006
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English
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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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Skye's West volume 13
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Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"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,...