Heaven Is a Long Way Off
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- Synopsis
- The fourth installment of the Rendezvous series, from award-winning author Win Blevins When Jebediah Smith's party of roving fur trappers is expelled from the Mexican territory of California, Sam Morgan is off for another adventure in this fourth installment of Win Blevins' Rendezvous series. The plucky Morgan, though tougher and wiser as a result of his experiences, is devastated when his Crow wife (Meadowlark) dies in childbirth. He is forced to leave his daughter Esperanza behind as the party travels to the adobe missions of Santa Fe. When a ravishing widow (Dona Paloma) falls for Sam, things begin to get sticky as Morgan makes plans to reclaim his daughter, only to learn that she has been kidnapped. Reclaiming Esperanza--and returning her to Wind River--becomes the greatest challenge of young Morgan's life. Rendered in gripping prose, Heaven Is a Long Way Off is an excellent addition to this thoroughly admirable Western series. Readers of Blevins will enjoy his careful look at group politics and race relations, which often finds his characters on the wrong end of a gun. His supporting research is fine, and historians of the period will recognize some of their favorite characters--Joe Meek, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger--in this motley band of resourceful (if uncouth) mountain men.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781504033114
- Publisher:
- Open Road Media
- Date of Addition:
- 02/23/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Win Blevins
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Westerns, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.