The Far Tribes (Skye's West) [Mass Market Paperback]

Richard S. Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

Series: Skye's West | Publication Date: March 15, 1990

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. 

Editorial Reviews

Review

"No one does it better than Wheeler… an extraordinary writer."--The Round-Up Quarterly
 
"Wheeler has done for the western story what C. S. Forester did for the sea story. Skye is the Horatio Hornblower of the Rockies."--Rocky Mountain News

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About the Author

Richard S.Wheeler has written over fifty novels and several short stories. He has won four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of western literature.

He lives in the literary and film community of Livingston, Montana, and is married to Professor Sue Hart, of Montana State University-Billings. Before turning to fiction he was a newsman and book editor. He has raised horses and been a wrangler at an Arizona dude ranch.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (March 15, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812510690
• ISBN-13: 978-0812510690
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,939,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard Wheeler began a late-in-life career as a novelist at age fifty, and by his seventy-fifth year had written seventy novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but turned to fiction full time in 1985.

He started by writing traditional westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some as Axel Brand. His Lieutenant Joe Sonntag series occurs in 1940s Milwaukee, and focuses on life in a big, smoky industrial city just after World War Two.

He has won numerous awards, including the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West, and also six Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. He has received more Spur Awards than any other living author.

He grew up in Wisconsin and migrated West, holding newspaper jobs in Phoenix, Oakland, Carson City, and Billings. His wife, Sue Hart, is an English professor at Montana State University in Billings.

He has been focusing more and more on biographical novels. One of these, published in March, 2010, is called Snowbound, and is about the explorer John C. Fremont's tragic fourth expedition. It won a Spur Award.


For a quarter of a century he's largely made his living from writing fiction. That reality astonishes him. In his mid-seventies now, he is still dreaming up new stories.

Note: There are other Richard Wheelers writing books. One is an historian of the Civil War, and another writes histories of the Marine Corps, and another is a social scientist. Richard S. Wheeler is the novelist.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Survival in the wild, March 11, 2008

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Evan the Dweezil (A Place-Sort Of, Montana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Far Tribes (Barnaby Skye Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of the earlier entries into the Skye's West series, and it's just as good as the others I've read to date. The freezing rain sequence was so painfully real, it set my hair standing on end. Once again, Mister Skye and his family delight the reader as they trek about what is now Montana, trying to keep their charges alive and in line.