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Skye's West volume 15
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Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the Royal Navy, takes a second wife at the urging of his Crow Indian wife, and agrees to act as a guide for a wealthy Englishman hoping to explore the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys.
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Skye's West volume 10
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During a trip back to the village of his Crow wife, Victoria, she is abducted by a deadly band of Blackfeet, and Skye must risk his life to rescue her, following a trail that takes him back to Canada, where he is still wanted by the British Navy for deserting his ship, four years ago.
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Skye's West volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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Barnaby Skye and his Crow Indian Wife travel to St. Louis in the hopes of finding a job as a post trader, but along the way, the couple encounter numerous obstacles.
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Skye's West volume 14
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Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies.
In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow Indian wife, Victoria, is critically wounded when a Blackfeet raiding party attacks a Crow hunting camp. Despite Skye's attempts at doctoring, Victoria's life hangs in the balance as the two, left alone in the frozen wilderness, struggle...
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Skye's West volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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It is 1832, six years after he deserted the Royal Navy, when Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to 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 a lifetime begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him.
With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric...
6) Snowbound
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This novel is based on the experience of American explorer John Frm̌ont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, when he becomes trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains and must fight his way out.
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Skye's West volume 13
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Barnaby Skye, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy who has carved a career in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, drifts south to Mexican territory with his Crow Indian wife, Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria," as he calls her), in this thirteenth and newest of the Skye chronicles.
At Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, the Skyes agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman, Standing Alone, locate her two children who...
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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...
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Skye's West volume 17
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In 1870, mountain man Barnaby Skye, noticing the landscape changing from the slaughtering of buffalo and the government's relocation of tribes to reservations and despite the hesitation of his two Native American wives, decides it is time for a change.
11) Drum's ring
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Drovers, bringing their herds up from Texas, don't like Opportunity, Kansas, at all. The town is full of crooks and corrupt officials, milking the cattlemen for all they're worth. Angie Drum, the editor of the town's weekly paper, is determined to root out the corruption and give the cattlemen from Texas a fair shake. But when she starts looking into the corruption, she is shocked to her core. Opportunity is not a friendly town any
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Capitalism comes to the American West -- and the Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, wrestle each other and Montana's fledgling government for control of the "richest hill on earth." When newsman John Fellowes Hall arrives in Butte, he sees a mess of smoky mine boilers and makeshift sheds. It's ugly as sin, but it's the best place to get rich. It's also a city full of stories. As an employee of mining titan William Andrews Clark, Hall finds himself involved...
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Ulysses McQueen and Stephen Jarvis are both caught up in the California gold rush of 1849, but McQueen is haunted by guilt over the wife he left behind in Iowa, and Jarvis, an ex-soldier in love with Rita Concepcion Estrada, must deal with her family's hatred for the conquering Yanquis.
18) Masterson
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Bat Masterson and his wife Emma set out to explore the life, and especially the legend, of Bat Masterson, from his days of fighting Commanches, to his days as a tough Dodge City lawman, to his final days as a newspaper reporter in New York.
19) The far tribes
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Skye's West volume 3
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"The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry warriors to the vicious beasts of the mountains, and the one name that all men of the frontier praise and whisper as if in prayer is Barnaby Skye. Elkanah Morse went west from Lowell, Massachusetts, with one goal in mind: to study the ways of the far tribes. But entrance into their world is not easy. Only one man is capable of bringing him to the native peoples safely, only one man who knows exactly...
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