New York Times best-selling author Win Blevins has won immense critical acclaim for his extensively researched historical Westerns, including the epic Rendezvous chronicles. Here he pens a fictionalized account of the life of famed Native American warrior Crazy Horse-the man who defeated General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Award winning author Win Blevins has earned critical and popular acclaim for his sweeping western Rendezvous saga.
Facing a bleak future, Sam Morgan decides to return to California with his daughter Esperanza and start a new life. The great golden land represents a bitter memory - his beloved Crow Indian wife Meadowlark died there in childbirth - but friends convince him that his destiny lies on the Pacific shore...
Best selling author, and expert on the 19th Century American fur trade, Win Blevins sweeps listeners away to the great American plains for tales of adventure starring his world-weary hero, Sam Morgan.
Acclaimed author Win Blevins' Stone Song won the Spur Award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. In Give Your Heart to the Hawks, Blevins offers a tribute to the "first Westerners" who explored the Great American West. Stories include those of John Colter, who escaped captivity by the Blackfeet Indians, and Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a grizzly bear and crawled 300 miles for help.
Best-selling author and expert on the 19thcentury American fur trade, Win Blevins sweeps listeners away to the great American plains for tales of adventure starring his world-weary hero, Sam Morgan. In the sixth installment of Blevins' Rendezvous series, Sam, his half-Crow-Indian daughter Esperanza, and a collection of eccentric characters head west from Wyoming to settle in California. But their journey is fraught with danger-and when Esperanza is kidnapped, Sam sets off on a violent mission to rescue her.
Win Blevins has won popular and critical acclaim for his sweeping Western Rendezvous saga. Heaven Is a Long Way Off finds Sam Morgan mourning the loss of his wife Meadowlark and determined to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But his journey is fraught with danger as Mexican authorities, Mojave Indians, and a host of other obstacles stand in his way.
Sam Morgan is picking up the pieces of his life a decade after he first left his home in Pennsylvania looking for adventure. When his lover - who is dying of cancer - sets off to pray at the shrine of the Virgin de Guadalupe, Sam finds himself a mission of his own. Two Mexican girls have been abducted by Navajo Indians, and Sam heads off into the New Mexico wilderness to rescue them.
The fifth volume in Win Blevins' epic Rendezvous series, A Long and Winding Road finds Sam Morgan picking up the pieces of his life a decade after he first left his home in Pennsylvania looking for adventure. When his lover, the widow Paloma Luna-who is dying of cancer-sets off to pray at the shrine of the Virgin de Guadalupe, Sam finds himself a mission of his own. Two Mexican girls have been abducted by Navajo Indians, and Sam heads off into the New Mexico wilderness to rescue them.
Win Blevins has won popular and critical acclaim for his sweeping Western Rendezvous saga. The fourth chapter in the series, Heaven Is a Long Way Off finds Sam Morgan mourning the loss of his wife Meadowlark and determined to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But his journey is fraught with danger as Mexican authorities, Mojave Indians, and a host of other obstacles stand in his way.
Win Blevins' hefty Rendezvous series is justly celebrated as a monumental work in the Western genre. In this third installment, Sam Morgan and his wife Meadowlark accompany legendary mountain man Jedediah Smith on an expedition into Mexican California territory. But while filled with adventure, their trek is also marked by hardships and tragedy. "Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West's very best." -Tony Hillerman
Historian, screenwriter, and best-selling author Win Blevins is also the winner of the Spur Award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for fiction. Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s. This time out, however, he is searching for his lost love-the Indian maiden Meadowlark. 'Blevins' lively fur-trading tales of the American West continue with this rousing second entry in the Rendezvous series.'-Publishers Weekly
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
