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(0)Winfred Blevins
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Beauty for Ashes follows Sam Morgan, a Pennsylvania boy who ran away from home and joined a party of fur trappers in the Rocky Mountains. Filled with action, danger, and romance, this is a memorable story of a boy who becomes a man by necessity in the cruel, beautiful, unexplored wilderness of the Old West." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
614 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Beauty for ashes: A sequel to "So Wild a Dream" finds 1820s apprentice mountaineer Sam Morgan traveling with a fur brigade in search of the Crow Native American woman he loves, an endeavor for which he must adopt the ways of her people and escape capture by the Sioux.
Heaven is a long way off: Sam Morgan, once a young runaway from Philadelphia, now a seasoned fur trapper and mountain man, faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life. It...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sam Morgan follows his dream and travels west leaving the city of Pittsburgh behind. In his travels west, Sam encounters many interesting characters including Captain William Clark, Jedediah Smith and Tom Fitzpatrick.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
531 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years, mountain men explored the Great American West, opening the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers that followed. Win Blevins' poetic tribute to their incredible adventures includes, among many, the stories of John Colter, who, in 1808, without clothing, weapons, or food, escaped captivity by the Blackfeet and traveled 250 miles on foot to Fort Lisa; And Hugh Glass, who in 1823 was mauled by a grizzly, left...