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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she, alone, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners-Rosa's family among...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies. In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow Indian wife, Victoria, is critically wounded when a Blackfeet raiding party attacks a Crow hunting camp. Despite Skye's attempts at doctoring, Victoria's life hangs in the balance as the two, left alone in the frozen wilderness, struggle...
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
Series
Mary Crow volume 5
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a governor dies a grotesque death at a reputedly haunted cabin, eerie rumors are resurrected in the little town of Hartsville, North Carolina. Attorney Mary Crow becomes reluctantly involved in the turmoil, defending a friend wrongly accused of the murder. This widens the odd rift between her and her partner, Jonathan Walkingstick, and soon their future together is at risk. Mary suddenly finds herself fighting on two fronts--one...
Author
Series
Mary Crow volume 7
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Whispers abound at the ancient Spanish Oak. To those who know how to listen, it tells secrets of vanquished conquistadors, Cherokee witches, and the long-unsolved murder of Teresa Ewing. Whispers also thrive in the town of Hartsville--rumors that Teresa's killer still walks free. While running for District Attorney, Mary Crow finds the whispers starting to swirl around her. Did one of her friends over up that twenty-year-old murder? Does her campaign...
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...