Barnaby Skye, a pressed seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at ort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back and a belaying pin for a weapon. Fighting for life, starving, his from his pursuers--the Hudson's Bay Company and the British Navy--he follows the Columbia River inland toward a fate he never anticipated. In a trapping brigade, Skye falls in with legendary mountain men such as Jim Bridger and Tom "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick and in the fabled Rocky Mountains finds another unexpected turn in his life when he meets the Crow maiden, Many Quill Woman, who will become his wife.
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"A promising start in what appears to be an absorbing, authoritative series."--Kirkus Reviews
"Wheeler is a master storyteller whose many tales of the Westerward movement...deftly weave fact, fiction, and folklore into pure entertainment."--Library Journal
"Rendezvous rings with authenticity. More importantly, it is pure storytelling magic that transports the reader back to one of the most exciting and adventurous eras in American history."--The Flint Journal
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"Wheeler is a master storyteller whose many tales of the Westerward movement...deftly weave fact, fiction, and folklore into pure entertainment."--Library Journal
"Rendezvous rings with authenticity. More importantly, it is pure storytelling magic that transports the reader back to one of the most exciting and adventurous eras in American history."--The Flint Journal
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.
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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.
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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.
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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I gave this 3 stars, because too many good guys died and they didn't deserve it. In other words too much reality. At least let some of the most hated characters get what's coming to them.
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Mister Skye lifted the new Henry, peered down the blued octagon barrel until the blade sight lined on the dusty glass eye of a royal elk, and squeezed the trigger. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mister Skye, Old Bull, Alvah Riddle, Big Alice, Buffalo Whiskers, Mister Riddle, Bannack City, Seven-Story Chang, Blueberry Hill, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Fort Laramie, Oregon Trail, Tommy O'Dougherty, Virginia City, Flora Slade, Half Crow, Mary-Rita Flaherty, Miss Dinwiddie, Gertrude Riddle, Homer Donk, Juliet Picard, Miss Slade, Alder Gulch, Colonel Bullock, Crow Killer New!
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Mister Skye lifted the new Henry, peered down the blued octagon barrel until the blade sight lined on the dusty glass eye of a royal elk, and squeezed the trigger. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mister Skye, Old Bull, Alvah Riddle, Big Alice, Buffalo Whiskers, Mister Riddle, Bannack City, Seven-Story Chang, Blueberry Hill, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Fort Laramie, Oregon Trail, Tommy O'Dougherty, Virginia City, Flora Slade, Half Crow, Mary-Rita Flaherty, Miss Dinwiddie, Gertrude Riddle, Homer Donk, Juliet Picard, Miss Slade, Alder Gulch, Colonel Bullock, Crow Killer New!
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- Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on page 125
- The Pony Express (The American West) by John Riddle on page 305
- Walden Pond (NE Landmarks) by Bonnie McGrath on page 83
- Pony Express (Wild West in American History) by A. I. Lake on page 305
- Sun River by Richard S. Wheeler in Front Matter
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