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1) Snowbound
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Trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, John Fremont must fight his way out, battling the frigid elements in a harrowing journey over the backbone of the continent. In this tale of desperate danger and fierce courage, Wheeler presents the reader with a survival saga like none before it-a struggle of man against man, man against nature, and man against himself- a novel you will never forget.
3) Going home
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"It is 1812, six years after he [Barnaby Sky] deserted the Royal Navy, and Skye has a chance to return to England, clear his name, and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of his life begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him." -- Jacket.
4) Dark passage
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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.
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In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow indian wife, Victoria, is critically wounded when a Blackfoot raiding party attacks a Crow hunting camp. Skye"s attempts a doctoring, Victoria's life hangs in the balance. Skye and Victoria struggle to survive cold and starvation.
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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...
8) Masterson
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Offended at being labelled a brutal killer, former gunfighter Bat Masterson, now a sportswriter in 1919 New York heads west to repair his reputation. A hopeless task, people want myths, not truth.
10) Restitiution
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Truman Jackson and his family are a pillar in the frontier town of Cottonwood, Utah. No one knows much about them -- that's because Truman and his wife Gracie have been hiding their own outlaw roots and criminal deeds for the past 17 years. Truman is ready to confess his sins, even if it turns his family, friends, and an entire town against him.
12) Cashbox
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The boom-to-bust tale of a silver mining town in Montana in the 1880s. The protagonists are Cornelius Daley, a mining entrepreneur, and Sylvie Duvalier, a saloon keeper. The novel follows their fortunes to the bitter end as Cashbox becomes a ghost town. By the author of Badlands.
14) Goldfield
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A romantic triangle during a gold rush set in Nevada at the turn of the century. The protagonists are Maude Arbuckle who discovers gold, her husband who squanders the money, and Hannibal Dash, a geologist who becomes her protector.
18) Second lives
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The 1880s gold rush in Colorado featuring half a dozen protagonists, among them a miner, a farm girl and a poet. A look at the way people handle success and failure, the trick being not to take either too seriously. By the author of Sierra.