Review
PRAISE FOR THE RENDEZVOUS SERIES
So Wild A Dream
"So Wild a Dream is a fabulous beginning of what promises to become a classic series that will be on college reading lists in history classes studying the fur trade era."--Roundup Magazine
"The first volume in the Rendezvous Series, So Wild a Dream is a thoroughly enjoyable tale of survival in the wilderness of the Great American West in the early 19th century. So Wild a Dream is a story of amazing courage, endurance, and resourcefulness."--Tennessean
"Win Blevins' novel about venturesome Sam Morgan and the fur trade and mountain men of the 1820s is both authentic and entertaining. It will be a welcome addition to any collection of Western fiction."-- Dallas Morning News
"Author Blevins, an expert on early American fur trade, introduces his rendezvous series with this entertaining, vivid portrait of frontier America as seen through the eyes of an impressionable youth." -Booklist
"…a powerful, heartfelt saga that colors a true picture of the mindset of the mountain man. The scenes are vivid, the scope of characters brilliant and refined…. So Wild a Dream is a story for all times."--Buffalo Reflex (Buffulo, MO)
"With the first page, the reader steps back into a wild new country populated by characters who are, enchantingly, only slightly more tame. Blevins's sweeping
vision of the American frontier is just plain irresistible." --W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, authors of People of the Owl
" No one writes about the fur trappers' westering experience better than Win Blevins. He has a poet's way with words, and imagery to match the wilderness reality. In So Wild A Dream Win has re-created that long-ago world where the improbable was commonplace, and where courage and audacity made anything possible."-- Lucia St. Clair Robson, author of Ghost Warrior
"So Wild a Dream reads like spare prose poetry, limning vulnerable, yet heroic human characters against the untrammeled frontier of the early nineteenth century. Short of reading the existing journals and letters of the men and women who settled a continent, today's reader will never come closer to seeing what they saw and seeing what they felt." --Loren D. Estleman, author of Black Powder, White Smoke
"The first volume of Win Blevin's proposed Rendezvous Series, So Wild A Dream is a fabulous beginning of what promises to become a classic series that will be on college reading lists in history classes studying the fur trading era. Besides it's educational value, So Wild A Dream is fun to read. If you can only afford one book this year, buy this one. It's a keeper." -Roundup Magazine
Beauty for Ashes
"Striving to succeed at trapping furs under the ominous gaze of the Sioux, he's continually battling wilderness, weather and the vicissitudes of fortune. His[Sam's]birthday-suit-bare escape from a Lakota camp is one of the most riveting episodes of recent Western fiction. And when Sam and his newly won Crow bride prepare to accompany the famed Jedediah Smith to the great Western Ocean, in the next of Blevin's Rendezvous series, the reader will gladly follow them all the way."--True West
"His gritty fiction brings to mind the the fur-trading novels of Frederick Manfred(Lord Grizzly, 1954) and Vardis Fisher(Mountain Man).The glory years of frontier life, fresh and rich"--Kirkus Reviews
"Blevins has done his research and knows the mountain men as well as anyone could--to read this tale is to get a true sense of what their ordeal and adventures must have been like…."--Library Journal on Dancing with the Golden Bear
About the Author
Win Blevins, an authority on the Plains Indians and fur-trade era of the West, is author of Give Your Heart to the Hawks, Stone Song, his prize-winning novel of Crazy Horse and many others including his Rendevous series that began with So Wild a Dream.
He lives in Utah with his wife Meredith, also a novelist.
