[PDF] Rendezvous And Dark Passage eBook

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466876980

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Two complete novels in one low-priced ebook edition from beloved Western author Richard S. Wheeler: Rendezvous and Dark Passage Rendezvous Barnaby Skye, a seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back. Fighting for life, he heads inland toward an unknown fate. Skye falls in with legendary mountain men, and finds another unexpected turn in his life when he meets the Crow maiden, Many Quill Woman, who will become his wife. Dark Passage In 1831 Skye accompanies his wife to her village, where she falls in with Jim Beckwourth and accompanies him on a raid among the Blackfeet. When she's abducted by the Bloods, the deadliest band of Blackfeet, Skye trails her into Canada, where he's still wanted for deserting his ship four years ago. Then Sky himself is taken prisoner, and Victoria must escape her captors to free the man she loves. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 076538065X

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In the 1800s, Barnaby Skye, a British youth impressed in the Royal Navy, jumps ship in Oregon and heads east to attend Harvard. On the way, he runs into Indians who introduce him to the life of a trapper, he meets an Indian maiden and forgets Harvard.

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466828684

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It is 1831 and Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the British Royal Navy and now a seasoned trapper in the Rocky Mountains, accompanies his Crow wife, Mary Quill Woman--whom he calls "Victoria"--to her village on the Yellowstone River. Victoria--unhappy with her husband's drinking and his unwillingness to join her people's fight against their sworn enemies, the Blackfeeet--succumbs to the entreaties of Jim Beckwourth, the much-honored and wealthy mulatto war chief of the Crow People. But when Victoria is abducted by the Bloods, the deadliest band of Blackfeet, Skye trails her across the border into Canada, where he is still wanted for deserting his ship at Fort Vancouver four years ago. But the Bloods are a deadly force, and Skye must face his fiercest battle ever to win her freedom and her heart. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Ridley Pearson
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423179218

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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 : Forge Books
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466828528

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Barnaby Skye, a pressed seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back and a belaying pin for a weapon. Fighting for life, starving, hiding from his pursuers--the Hudson's Bay Company and the British Navy--he follows the Columbia River inland toward a fate he never anticipated. In a trapping brigade, Skye falls in with legendary mountain men such as Jim Bridger and Tom "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick and in the fabled Rocky Mountains finds another unexpected turn in his life when he meets the Crow maiden, Many Quill Woman, who will become his wife. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312863195

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In 1826, Barnaby Skye, a twenty-year-old pressed seaman, deserts his Royal Navy frigate at Fort Vancouver, escapes the minions of the Navy and the Hudson's Bay Company, and makes his way down the trackless Columbia River country alone.

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765391651

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Going home: Barnaby Skye is a "free trapper" in the Rockies. With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric botanist named Alistair Nutmeg, and a stray dog, Skye makes his way west to begin the long journey home to England. Fighting Mexican bandits and Pacific coast Indians along the way, battling thirst and hunger, Skye learns where home really is and what honor really means. / Downriver: At the trapper's rendezvous in Wyoming, in 1838, Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, is offered an opportunity to become a post trader in his Crow Indian wife's homeland. He begins the journey to St. Louis to present himself as a candidate for the job and undergoes a lesson in survival on a Missouri River steamboat.

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081256684X

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At Bent's Fort, Barnaby Sky and his wife agree to rescue Cheyenne children kidnapped by the Utes, with the help of one Colonel Childress and his spider monkey.

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2005-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812576115

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In July, 1867, exiled IrishmanThomas Meagher, a giant of Irish history and folklore, disappeared while traveling on a river steamer and was given up for drowned. Wheeler solves this mystery in this moving, meticulously researched novel.

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429992662

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There is a season for all things. . . For Barnaby Skye, legendary guide and man of the borders, it is time to start a new life. For Skye's younger wife, the beautiful Shoshone woman he calls Mary, it is time to find the beloved son she has not seen in seven years. For Skye's half-blood son, North Star, it is time to discover who he is. And for Skye's older Crow wife, Victoria, the whole world is spinning out of control. In this sweeping novel of the early West, Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation lands. How can people born and bred to tribal life learn to live another way? Their struggle takes the Skyes from the Crazy Mountains in Montana to St. Louis and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains - a tide that leaves no good place for a veteran borders man with two Indian wives and a mixed-blood son. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.