{"product_id":"so-wild-a-dream-the-rendezvous-series-9780692203842","title":"So Wild a Dream (The Rendezvous Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Blevins possesses a rare skill in masterfully telling a story-to-paper. He is a true storyteller in the tradition of Native people.\"--Lee Francis  Professor of Native American Studies  University of New Mexico  Into the untamed West came the mountain men. They explored the wilderness  crossed the Rocky Mountains  learned the ways of Indian tribes  trekked to the Pacific  and became the stuff of legends. In SO WILD A DREAM  first book of the Rendezvous series  we meet young Sam Morgan. Sam has a hungry spirit and is pulled by the lure of adventure. In 1822  life in Pennsylvania feels hemmed in  and Sam nurtures the dream of a truly free American life. Since the return of Captains Lewis and Clark  people are bubbling with stories about the far-off Shining Mountains. Sam gets a job on a riverboat  and the adventure begins.  Along the way he finds companions and adventures. For guidance  an educated Delaware Indian and Captain William Clark himself. For friends  a con man  a madam  and an assortment of shaggy people who have tasted the waters of those mountains.  Sam first learns the fur trade from Bible-toting Jedediah Smith and Irish Tom Fitzpatrick  both already becoming legends. He also learns from the Indians. At the Ree villages  he comes face-to-face with treachery and instant death. Among the Crows  he learns the love of a woman. From the Bois Brules  Snakes  Pawnees  and other tribes  he learns native crafts  lore  and mysticism.  But Sams best teacher is hard-won experience. He makes a grueling seven-hundred-mile trek  alone and on foot  across the Great Plains to Fort Atkinson on the Missouri River. On route  he survives the holocaust of a prairie fire and learns the price of survival in the pitiless Western wilds. Sam also learns something of who he is and of who he wants to become.  SO WILD A DREAM was chosen by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers as novel of the year. It also won the Spur award for best novel of the West.p Not since Frederick Manfreds Lord Grizzly and Vardis Fishers Mountain Man has there been so gripping  authentic  and captivating a story of the men who matched the mountains of the Great American West. Win Blevins has long since won his place among the Wests very best.Tony Hillerman  No one since the great A. B. Guthrie  Jr  has a better feel for the world of the mountain man.Don Coldsmith  Blevinss sweeping vision of the American frontier is just plain irresistible. W. Michael Gear and Kathleen ONeal Gear  authors of People of the Owl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931110539317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0692203842","price":60.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780692203842.jpg?v=1794211746","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/so-wild-a-dream-the-rendezvous-series-9780692203842","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}