Wind River [Mass Market Paperback]

Gary McCarthy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1998

In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between a decent man and an outlaw was often too thinly drawn, two extraordinary sisters struggled to survive and fought for their freedom. Rebecca, as beautiful and untamable as the mountains of Utah, was forced to marry a brutal polygamist, but she refused to surrender her dream. And Katie risked her life so Rebecca might have a chance for freedom. And she risked everything else to establish a sprawling ranch in the midst of an expanding nation--and to prove that a woman could do it.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843943777
• ISBN-13: 978-0843943771
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,124,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gary McCarthy is a multiple-award winning author of fourteen American historical and thirty-four western novels published by many of New York's major publishing houses. He is well suited to writing about the American West and has a B.S. Degree in Animal Science from Cal Poly and an M.S. Degree Agricultural Economics from the University of Nevada, Reno. In 1993, his GILA RIVER published by Bantam Books won the Western Writers of America's Spur Award as the Best Historical Paperback Novel. Gary now lives in Northern Arizona and in recent years his novels have been placed in and around the Grand Canyon and often focus on the Navajo, Hualapai, Hopi and the history of Arizona. A hiker and horsemen, Gary enjoys time spent the vast and lonesome expanses he explores on the Kaibab Plateau and time spent looking for new story material. On one of those journeys to the Hualapai Reservation located on old Route 66 along the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Gary became fascinated with Hualapai stories of how,as children, they were forced to attend oftentimes distant Indian Schools. Out of this research and his friendship with the Hualapai, Gary wrote the moving story of RIVER THUNDER which, in 2009, won the Spur Award for Best Audio Book and has been published by his imprint, Canyon Country Books at www.canyoncountrybooks.com. Gary also writes an interesting column on the West titled OUR AMERICAN WEST and is now researching future historical novels set in Wyoming, California, Colorado the Navajo Reservation. He recently wrote a delightful children's Christmas story, MADDIE O'BRIEN'S CHRISTMAS DONKEYS and hopes to do more stores using the strong-willed young Maddie O'Brien as his central character.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Book I've Read in a Long Time, November 25, 1999

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This review is from: Wind River (Mass Market Paperback)

McCarthy has a great way with the West, but in this book he shows his depth as a writer. This story has all the right elements: action, romance, mystery, adventure, etc. The most compelling part is the relationship between the sisters (which is continued even more successfully in the sequel) and how they grow together, even as they disagree about life's choices.

I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wind River, September 5, 2005

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This review is from: Wind River (Mass Market Paperback)

This is an excellent novel, difficult to put down.
Struggling pioneers and women's suffrage, you are
there. Great.