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1) Snowbound
Author
Language
English
Description
A novelization of the adventures of American explorer John Frémont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel finds him trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, from where he must fight his way out.
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 19
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Working as a guide for wealthy Englishman Graves Duplessis Mercer, mountain man Barnaby Skye finds their lives in danger when they visit a Missouri River valley filled with gigantic fossils of ancient monsters, a region sacred to local tribes.
3) Goldfield
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of rich lodes of gold in southwestern Nevada drew mobs of dreamers and entrepreneurs, out to get rich quick.
4) Badlands
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Candace enters the Badlands on a scientific expedition to study prehistoric man and fossils. The men with her attempt to plunder the Sioux Nation and everything becomes a nightmare.
5) Flint's gift
Author
Series
[Sam Flint series] volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The adventures in the Old West of Sam Flint, the owner of a newspaper in a district where there is fighting between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. When some gunmen invade the town, Flint joins forces with a rancher to fight them, an uneasy alliance as both men are in love with the same woman.
6) Masterson
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
[Sam Flint series] volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Crusading newsman Sam Flint battles opposition as he starts a newspaper in the newly established state of Colorado. One of his enemies is a mining baron who treats his workers badly and attempts to put Flint out of business by seizing the printing plant.
9) Rendezvous
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
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
10) Going home
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 11
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1840s, the trails west from the Missouri frontier were clogged with pioneers searching for a new life in a remote land they thought was another Eden. In The Fields of Eden Richard S. Wheeler shows us a handful of these emigrants who arrived at the gates of Arcadia at a time when the British Hudson's Bay Company controlled the Oregon country and resisted every American effort to push the republics boundaries to the Pacific. This...
12) Virgin River
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Barnaby Skye and his two wives, Victoria of the Crow and Mary of the Shoshone, lead a party of tubercular children and their families through the desert Southwest in search of a cure at Virgin River, but their expedition is threatened by rival guides andsuperstitious fears.
13) Downriver
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 12
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Vengeance Valley
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Conned out of his money and land, Hard Luck Yancey stumbles upon black Telluride gold beneath a Sisters of Charity miners' hospital, a discovery that pits him against ruthless mining barons and greedy outlaws.
15) The deliverance
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Barnaby Skye and his Crow Indian wife drift south to Mexican territory, where they agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman locate her two kidnapped children.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In Second Lives, Spur Award-winning author Richard S. Wheeler turns his storytelling genius to that great Western crossroads Denver, Colorado, in its formative years during the raucous 1880s. To this place, during an era when the search for gold and silver makes millionaires overnight and unmakes them just as quickly, comes Lorenzo Carthage. His mining ventures are daring, and he stages balls and parties of dazzling sumptuousness even when his fortunes...
17) The fire arrow
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 14
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
With his wife critically wounded in a Blackfeet raid, Barnaby Skye struggles to reach her home village for help and is challenged by a band of Yankee traders who are attempting to sell illicit liquor to the Native Americans.
18) Flint's truth
Author
Series
[Sam Flint series] volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Driving his wagonload of printing equipment into Oro Blanco, site of the richest gold strike in the New Mexico Territory, journeymen editor Sam Flint decides his newest weekly newspaper will be the Oro Blanco Nugget. But, as he's learned the hard way before, an editor is only popular if he can keep a secret, and Oro Blanco seems to have more than its share. How long will the big mining bosses let his newborn paper exist before they try to run him...
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