Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765359346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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On deserting from a Royal Navy ship, sailor Barnaby Skye becomes a fur trapper in America. He marries an Indian woman, but she leaves him to become the second wife of an Indian chief. When another tribe abducts her, Skye goes to her rescue.
Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1423179218
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The five Kingdom Keepers and their core friends have uncovered a startling truth: Disney villains Maleficent and the Overtakers are plotting a catastrophic event that could have repercussions far beyond the world of Disney. Aboard the Disney Cruise Line's inaugural passage through the new Panama Canal, the Keepers and their holograms uncover a puzzle hidden within the pages of a stolen journal. The point of that puzzle will reveal itself in the caves of Aruba, the zip lines of Costa Rica, and the jungles of Mexico. A destructive force, dormant for decades, is about to be unleashed. The five Kingdom Keepers are to be its first victims! Includes a preview chapter from Kingdom Keepers VII - The Insider!
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765351739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Barnaby Skye acts as a guide to a wealthy Englishman who wants to see the wonders of the Missouri River Valley.
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765366436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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One of the West's most beloved writers sets his sights on the war of the Copper Kings in late 19th-century Montana, and their struggle for control of the Orichest hill on Earth.
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 142998225X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Lewis and Clark: forever paired for their epochal first crossing of the continent in 1804-1806, darlings of the young republic, and the pride of Thomas Jefferson because they made his dream of a nation between two oceans come true. Lewis and Clark: two great but very different men. Plain-spoken William Clark, enjoys the triumphs and acclaim of the expedition, marries his childhood sweetheart, and settles in St. Louis as superintendent of the nation's Indian affairs. His black manservant, York, who accompanied the expedition, forces Clark to confront the very nature of slavery and question the society that condoned it. Meriwether Lewis, a man of fierce courage and brilliant intellect, returns from the Pacific a changed man. Something terrible has happened to him, something insidious, a disease with no name that erodes his health, threatens to destroy his mind--and his honor. In Eclipse, Richard S. Wheeler has written a tour de force novel, an exploration of triumph and tragedy told in the authentically rendered voices of the two greatest American explorers. Moreover, Wheeler provides a solution--dark in its ramifications--to one of the greatest mysteries in American history: the terrible and unexplained death of Meriwether Lewis, age thirty-five, in the wilderness of the Natchez Trace of Tennessee in October, 1809. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1466822988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, Rocky Mountain trapper, and frontiersman extraordinaire, brings his Crow Indian wife, Many Quill Woman (whom Skye calls "Victoria"), to the trappers' rendezvous on the Popo Agie River of Wyoming in the summer of 1838. There, he learns that the beaver-trapping business is dying out. When he is offered a chance to become a post trader in Victoria's homeland, he makes the journey to St. Louis to present himself as a candidate for the job to the mighty managers of the Upper Missouri Outfit. The 2,000-mile voyage down the Missouri River steamboat Otter is a lesson in survival to Skye and Victoria. The river offers dangers at every turn--but the real danger lies in another passenger on the paddlewheel steamer, the Creole fur brigade leader Alexandre Bonfils. This nefarious man, with influential relatives in St. Louis, is a rival for the job Skye is seeking and is determined to be the only candidate by the time the Otter reaches the city. Adding to Skye's problems is his rescue of a Cheyenne woman, Lame Deer, who needs to get to St. Louis to find her missing husband--a white man who has deserted her and their two children to marry into a prominent St. Louis family. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765381613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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A widow must defend herself and her property from greedy townsfolk in Easy Pickings, a new tale from renowned master of the Western novel, Richard S. Wheeler Life hasn't always been easy for March and Kermit McPhee, but things are looking up. March gives birth to a healthy son, and their small gold mine is looking better and better as Kermit blasts his way along a good seam of ore. Then Kermit is crushed by a cave-in. As soon as her husband dies, crooks are at March's door, eager to get their hands on the mine. The peaceful town of Marysville, Montana, is peaceful no more. March's home is burned and her baby killed. Terrified and threatened, she is targeted by the wealthy and powerful. March fights back every way she can. She discovers she has allies: a saloon man named Tipperary Leary, an assayer named Rolf Wittgenstein, and a slippery lawyer named Hermes Apollo. Still, March must ask herself whether it is worth it; whether a gold mine, or wealth of any sort, should be defended at such a price.
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765307095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Barnaby Skye agrees to guide a wagon train of seriously ill children through the desert in hopes of a cure. He must deal with other immigrant trains that fear the plague and angry Mormon settlements in conflict with the government over polygamy.
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1466822996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Barnaby Skye, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy who has carved a career in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, drifts south to Mexican territory with his Crow Indian wife, Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria," as he calls her), in this thirteenth and newest of the Skye chronicles. At Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, the Skyes agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman, Standing Alone, locate her two children who were kidnapped by Ute Indians several years before and sold into bondage in Mexico. The mission, impossible, dangerous, and foolhardy to all Skye's friends, takes the three to Santa Fe and Taos and into a strange association with an eccentric, self-proclaimed Texas adventurer and filibuster, Colonel Childress, who agrees to help them for reasons no one can guess. Childress has a wagon decorated with a Jolly Roger, an enormous Clydesdale horse, and a pet spider monkey named Shine, whose nimble talent for stealing food and performing for coins saves the lives of Skye and his party on several occasions. But neither the colonel nor his simian can prevent the inevitable consequences of an uninvited foray into forbidden territory. The party is robbed and left naked in the desert by Apaches; Skye is taken prisoner and sentenced to hang; Childress seems to be a traitor but rescues Victoria and Standing Alone, and is determined to find Skye and free him from his captors. The Deliverance is the thirteenth in a series of early American West frontier novels featuring Richard Wheeler's Barnaby Skye, the most beloved and enduring character in modern Western fiction. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765322013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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Wheeler delivers the latest installment in the long-running and much-loved Skye's West series, featuring mountain man Barnaby Skye.
