{"product_id":"9781250305114","title":"Heaven Is a Long Way Off : A Novel of the Mountain Men","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHeaven Is a Long Way Off\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Win Blevins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWin Blevins's Spur Award-winning Sam Morgan series continues in a riveting new western adventure with \u003ci\u003eHeaven Is a Long Way Off\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Morgan, once a young runaway from Philadelphia, now a seasoned fur trapper and mountain man, faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life. It is 1827 and he, together with the trapping brigade commanded by Jedediah Smith, has been expelled from Mexican California. To his unending sorrow, Meadowlark, Sam's beloved Indian wife, has died in childbirth and he has been forced to abandon his infant daughter, Esperanza. Now, Sam is determined to reclaim his baby and take her to Meadowlark's village on the Wind River of Wyoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Santa Fe, Sam meets a beautiful widow known as Dona Paloma and the two become lovers. Then, after the herd of horses belonging to Sam and his companions are sold for a healthy profit, he returns to California to reunite with his daughter only to learn she has been taken captive in an Indian raid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam's desperate mission to rescue his daughter, their escape in a frail craft down a rampaging river, and their long trek to Santa Fe, is a harrowing tale told by a master of the historical novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Blevins has done his research and knows the mountain men as well as anyone could--to read this tale is to get a true sense of what their ordeal and adventures must have been like….” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal on Dancing with the Golden Bear\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“…a rousing installment in a fine epic of the American Frontier.” —\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly on Beauty for Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His gritty fiction brings to mind the fur-trading novels of Frederick Manfred(\u003ci\u003eLord Grizzly\u003c\/i\u003e, 1954) and Vardis Fisher(\u003ci\u003eMountain Man\u003c\/i\u003e).The glory years of frontier life, fresh and rich” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews on Beauty for Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Win Blevins' novel about venturesome Sam Morgan and the fur trade and mountain men of the 1820s is both authentic and entertaining. It will be a welcome addition to any collection of Western fiction.” —\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News on So Wild a Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Author Blevins, an expert on early American fur trade, introduces his rendezvous series with this entertaining, vivid portrait of frontier America as seen through the eyes of an impressionable youth.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist on So Wild a Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250305114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Forge Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40686585741518,"sku":"9781250305114","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250305114","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}