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Two stories of renowned American explorers in one low-priced edition, from master of the western novel Richard S. WheelerSnowboundAmerican explorer John Frémont embarks on a quest to find a railway route to the west along the 38th parallel. His fourth expedition, into the American west in the dead of winter, proves more challenging than anticipated. Trapped, snowbound, in the Colorado mountains, Frémont must battle the frigid elements in a harrowing journey over the backbone of the continent. This novel of desperate danger and fierce courage is a survival saga par excellence—a struggle of man against man, man against nature, and man against himself.EclipseLewis and Clark made history with their epochal first crossing of the North American continent. Upon their return, plain-spoken William Clark enjoys his fame, marries his childhood sweetheart, and settles in St. Louis as superintendent of the nation''s Indian affairs. His black manservant, York, forces him to confront the nature of slavery and question the society that condones it. Meriwether Lewis, a man of courage and brilliant intellect, returns from the Pacific a changed man. Something terrible has happened to him, a disease with no name that erodes his health and threatens to destroy his mind—and his honor. Eclipse is an exploration of triumph and tragedy told in the authentically rendered voices of two of the greatest American explorers.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Travelling performers struggle to impress rowdy western towns in Anything Goes, and ambitions clash as Montana miners fight for control of The Richest Hill on Earth; two novels from six-time Spur Award winner Richard S. Wheeler.Anything GoesThe cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Those western towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in them. All that is about to change. Though the towns are starved for entertainment, the Follies struggles to fill seats as it grinds from town to town. Just when the company is desperate for fresh talent, a mysterious young woman astonishes everyone with her exquisite voice.The Richest Hill on EarthThe city of Butte looks like a cancerous mélange of smoky mine boilers and rudely constructed sheds when newspaperman John Fellowes Hall arrives in 1892. But Butte is the place to get rich. It is also a city full of stories, perfect for a journalist looking to make a name for himself. As an employee of mining titan William Andrews Clark, Hall will find himself deeply involved in the best story of them all: the fight among the Copper Kings. This is the story of their struggle as well as the story of the ordinary people—the miners, their wives and children, the journalists, and even the psychics—trying to make their fortunes on the richest hill on earth.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From six-time Spur Award-winning author, Richard S. Wheeler, two tales of strength in the face of adversity- Easy Pickings and The First Dance at one low price.Easy PickingsLife hasn’t always been easy for March and Kermit McPhee, but things are finally looking up. March has given birth to a healthy son, and Kermit is blasting his way along a good seam of ore in their small gold mine. Then Kermit is crushed by a cave-in.Within days of his death, the crooks of Marysville, Montana, are at March’s door, eager to get their hands on the mine. Her refusal sets off a terrible chain of events. March’s baby boy is killed, her home burned to the ground. Terrified and threatened, targeted by the wealthy and powerful, March fights back every way she can. Still, she must ask herself whether it is worth it; whether a gold mine, or wealth of any sort, should be defended at such a price.The First DanceMiles City, Montana, 1885. Barnaby Skye''s mixed-blood son, Dirk, marries a Métis girl, Therese, but his position as a civilian translator for the US Army threatens to shatter their union. When Dirk is forced to serve in the brutal campaign between Montana''s disgruntled cattle ranchers and the native Métis people, a distraught Therese flees—on their wedding night.Though they have been torn apart, Therese and Dirk share a powerful bond and a common cause: the desire to help the displaced Métis find a home. Their love pulls them toward reconciliation and new hope for Therese''s people.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Embark on a thrilling frontier journey with legendary mountain man Barnaby Skye in two riveting installments of the Spur Award-winning Skye''s West series.Going HomeIn 1832, six years after deserting the Royal Navy, Barnaby Skye seizes a chance to clear his name and join the Hudson''s Bay Company. Accompanied by his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, eccentric botanist Alistair Nutmeg, and a strange pariah dog, Skye heads west to begin his journey home. But trouble seems to follow this legendary frontiersman, as he battles Mexican bandits, murderous coastal Indians, thirst, starvation, and despair, learning the true meaning of honor and home along the way.DownriverThe summer of 1838 sees the beaver-trapping business in decline. When Barnaby Skye is offered a post trader position in his Crow wife''s homeland, he journeys to St. Louis aboard the steamboat Otter to present himself as a candidate. The 2,000-mile voyage down the Missouri River is fraught with danger, but the real threat lies in fellow passenger Alexandre Bonfils, a nefarious Creole fur brigade leader and rival for the job who is determined to eliminate the competition before the Otter reaches its destination.Immerse yourself in the untamed American frontier with Richard S. Wheeler''s masterful storytelling and unforgettable characters in Going Home and Downriver.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Two Skye''s West novels by Spur Award-winner and legendary Western writer Richard S. Wheeler in one volume.The Canyon of BonesMountain man Barnaby Skye takes work guiding wealthy Englishman Graves Mercer on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer has come to the American wilderness seeking thrilling, preferably salacious, material for British tabloids. He takes an ancient bone that''s sacred among certain tribes—and the act may cost the party their lives. North StarBarnaby Skye faces radical change as the wilderness vanishes, buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation land. His family''s struggle to adapt takes them from Montana to Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Deliverance and The Fire Arrow are two Skye''s West novels by one of America’s greatest Western storytellers, Richard S. Wheeler, at one price. The DeliveranceBarnaby Skye—trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure—and his Crow wife, Victoria, agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman on the Mexican frontier locate her two children; they were kidnapped by Ute Native Americans several years before and sold into bondage in Mexico. This impossible, dangerous, and foolhardy mission takes the three to Santa Fe and Taos, and into a strange association with an eccentric Texas adventurer who agrees to help them—for reasons of his own.The Fire ArrowWhen Blackfeet raiders attack Barnaby Skye and his wife Victoria in the midst of a cruel winter in the Rockies, the two are stranded in their frozen camp with no horses and little food. To save Victoria’s life, they must travel toward her home on the Musselshell River. But their journey is interrupted by a party of renegade white men with a wagonload of cheap and poisonous whiskey they intend to trade to the Native Americans—including Victoria’s people, the Crow. Skye is forced to assist the outlaws, but all the while, he plots to ruin their deadly enterprise.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

With the trapping trade on the decline, mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work as a guide, leading a wealthy Englishman, Graves Duplessis Mercer, and two companions on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys.Mercer is a peculiar employer. He has come to the American wilderness seeking weird, morbid, thrilling, preferably slightly salacious, material to write up for British tabloids. He has little interest in such amazing natural phenomena as the geysers of the Yellowstone country but is adept in ferreting out stories of cannibalism and similar atrocities.To the Briton''s disappointment, Skye has none of these to offer but does agree to take him to a Missouri River valley where gigantic bones of ancient monsters thrust out of canyon walls. Skye''s Crow Indian wife, Victoria, warns that the bones are sacred among certain tribes, but Mercer insists on taking a "trophy" – a tooth from a tyrannosaurus-like fossil. This act nearly costs the lives of Mercer''s party and its guide, Barnaby Skye.Wheeler''s Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the Royal Navy who becomes a legendary mountain man, has been called "the Horatio Hornblower of the Rocky Mountains."At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In 1832, legendary mountain man Barnaby Skye''s journey home to England turns into a perilous fight for survival across the untamed American West.Six years after deserting the Royal Navy, 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 botanist named Alistair Nutmeg, and a strange pariah dog following along, Skye makes his way west to Fort Vancouver in the Oregon country to begin his journey home. Adept at dodging Blackfeet war parties and staving off starvation, Skye''s luck—generally bad to begin with—runs out when the Hudson''s Bay ship Cadboro makes a stopover in Mexican California.In Going Home, Skye fights Mexican bandits, murderous Pacific coastal Indians, thirst, starvation, and despair, as he learns where home really is and what honor truly means in this gripping tale of survival set in the wild American frontier of the 19th century.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.