Named Writer of the Year in 2003 by Wordcraft Circle of Native writers, Win Blevins has built a considerable literary legacy with his novels set in the early 19th-century American heartland. Escaping his life in 1820s Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat. Mixing with an eclectic group of scoundrels and misfits, Sam finds adventure at every turn on the American frontier. ". [an] entertaining, vivid portrait of frontier America as seen through the eyes of an impressionable youth."-Booklist
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"A little cliche, maybe, but very entertaining. Follows all the classic tropes of Western literature. The author obviously knows his history, though, and has read all the classic mountain man journals. I'll definitely move on to the next book in the series." — Patrick (4 out of 5 stars)
"A little cliche, maybe, but very entertaining. Follows all the classic tropes of Western literature. The author obviously knows his history, though, and has read all the classic mountain man journals. I'll definitely move on to the next book in the series."
… an entertaining, vivid portrait of frontier America as seen through the eyes of an impressionable youth.
" Good book about the mountain men first going into the wild. More books follow this one. First in a series. "
Win Blevins is the New York Times bestselling author of a dozen novels, several volumes of informal history, and Dictionary of the American West. He has won the Western Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame. His works include the novel Stone Song, which won the Spur Award and a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Fiction. So Wild a Dream won the Spur Award for Best Novel of the West. In 2003, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers named him Writer of the Year.
Ed Sala has narrated dozens of audio books throughout his career. His readings include Harlan Coben’s Tell No One, Stephen Sears’ Gettysburg, and Cormac MacCarthy’s Outer Dark.
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