Winfred Blevins
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For over thirty years, from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s, the mountain men explored the Great American West. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. In Give Your Heart to the Hawks, Win Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these dauntless "first Westerners" and their incredible adventures. Here, among many, are the stories of:* John...
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Rendezvous novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2007
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"A decade has passed since Sam Morgan of Pennsylvania ran away from disappointments at home and joined the rough-and-tumble life of a mountain man in the Far West. In those ten years, Sam has made his mark as a trapper, fighter, and survivor. Sam has also endured tragedy: An explorative venture into California, five years past, ended when his Crow Indian wife, Meadowlark, died in childbirth. And now his lover, the widow Paloma Luna, owner of a wealthy...
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Rendezvous novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
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An ambitious and daring young man, Sam Morgan leaves his home in 1820s Pennsylvania to seek adventure and a fortune in the frontier West, accompanied by a colorful assortment of companions he meets along the way.
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Rendezvous novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2006
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Sam Morgan, a member of Jedediah Smith's trapping brigade, is forced to abandon his infant daughter when his beloved Indian wife dies in childbirth. After traveling to Santa Fe with the brigade, Sam returns to California to reclaim his daughter and take her to his wife's village on the Wind River in Wyoming. When he gets to California, however, he learns that his daughter has been taken captive in an Indian raid. He eventually rescues his daughter...
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Rivers West volume 4
Pub. Date
c1990
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This is the story of the journey of the Cheyenne back to their native land. With the U.S. Army in close pursuit, the Cheyenne reservation in the Southwest and head north across the plains to the freedom of the Powder River. But along the way, death is commonplace, and the tension between the Indians and the whites escalates.
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2016.
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When Navajo detective Yazzie Goldman steps in to protect an old man from being harassed by a hood, he discovers that the old man is none other than architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright has found himself surrounded by bad people, including a Chicago gangster he's in debt to and an assistant who wants to steal Wright's plans for the Guggenheim Museum. Yazzie takes Wright into his home for protection, but he'll need to find allies if he's going to win...
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Yazzie Goldman novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Upon his return from World War II, Seaman Yazzie Goldman realizes that not much has changed at his family's trading post in Monument Valley--and yet everything is different ... [Yazzie's mother] Nizhoni is thrilled that Yazzie has returned to help bring the trading post back to prosperity. Excitement comes from the nearby filming of a John Ford movie starring Henry Fonda. Director Ford enlists the tall, strong, half-Navajo and half-Jewish Yazzie...
13) Ravenshadow
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Pub. Date
1999
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Joseph Blue Crow, chosen before his birth as a bearer of the sacred ways of his Sioux people, abandons his heritage for a life of basketball, booze, and women; but when his chosen road leads him to the brink of suicide, Blue attempts to reclaim his roots by embarking on a vision quest.
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Rendezvous novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2008
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Eighteen years have passed since Sam Morgan came West from Pennsylvania and learned the perilous business of trapping in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Now, in 1840, he seems to face a bleak future. The fur trade has played out and he must find other means of making a living. Sam decides to return to California with his daughter Esperanza and start a new life.
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