Sundance (Skye's West) [Mass Market Paperback]

Richard S. Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

Series: Skye's West | Publication Date: October 15, 1992

Along the Oregon Trail, a war party of Lakota Sioux rob Con Brann of all that he holds dear--his horses and, more devastatingly his lovely daughter Hester.  Only Mister Skye, guide and scout to the Great Plains, can help Brann now.
 
Meanwhile the Sioux, 10,000 strong, gather to celebrate their ancient Sun Dance ritual, praying for vengeance upon their enemies, including Skye.
 
Skye, honor-bound to rescue the young girl, must infiltrate their sacred ceremony…even though discovery means horrible death.

Editorial Reviews

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"Wheeler does for the western what C.S. Forrester did for the sea story!"

--Rocky Mountail News

 

"Richard Wheeler is a master in today's writing of the opening of the West."

--Terry C. Johnston, author of the acclaimed Plainsman series

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: 352 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (October 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812513061
• ISBN-13: 978-0812513066
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #852,237 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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.

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Bought the book as I have the whole collection so far of Skye's West, enjoy reading about those times