Wind River: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West) [Mass Market Paperback]

Richard S. Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

Series: Skye's West | Publication Date: July 31, 2007

            Barnaby Skye, the former Royal Navy Captain turned trapper has been offered a lucrative proposal from the US Government.  His intimate relations with many Indian tribes, and his marriages to their women, have landed him a job as scout and translator for the government’s Indian Affairs. The proposal he must present to the natives: a lopsided treaty in favor of the colonists or certain annihilation.
           

            Torn between the two nations, Skye makes his decision when a powerful army officer threatens his wives and vows to destroy Skye for betraying his country.
           

            Skye must face off against rogue factions of the US Army in hopes of seeing a peaceful and fair treaty through, and the survival of his family and the Great Plains tribes.   

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“Nobody does it better!”- The Round-Up Quarterly
 
“Rousing western adventure with good characters, good humor, and good writing” – Rocky Mountain News
 
“Wheeler now joins the ranks of Larry McMurtry, Glendon Swarthout, Tony Hillerman, and Dorothy Johnson.” – Billings Gazette

About the Author

RICHARD S. WHEELER is the author of over fifty novels of the American West. He holds five Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions to the literature of the West. He lives in Livingston, Montana, near Yellowstone Park, and is married to Sue Hart, an English professor at Montana State University in Billings.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Forge Books; 1st edition (July 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765359367
• ISBN-13: 978-0765359360
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,179,967 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Wind River, April 11, 2007

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This review is from: Wind River: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is part of the Skye's West series, and is well written. Mr Wheeler takes you on what appears to be a realistic adventure through different parts of the west.
While reading the book, you get the feeling of the joys and real hardships people had while trecking through harsh indian country, sometimes having to live and clothe themselves with only Skye and his indian wives to help them.