The Fire Arrow: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765351722 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Probably a good historical story, but not a real Western. Just a drunk having a bad time in the woods." according to Norm Beavers. This is a Forge Fiction story; yes it's fiction, and not even labeled as a Western.Just a story about Mister Skye running around the West. And insisting on being call "Mister" is silly (and this is a kind word).He gets drunk twice and loses all his possessions. This is supposed to be a very competent and cautious man of the West. Well, he acts more like a drunk in a dark alley in any city.I haven't finished this book, but I will. I have found skipping over 25% of the words is no problem. I do not enjoy reading page after page of information about the weather, starting a fire, and other details of no interest to a Western fan.I have three m. Best fur trapper character Ever Loved this whole seriesjust wish you could find which book comes next. I don't like books with swearing, but I give Victoria a pass. You will not be sorry sitting in your comfortable chair, thinking about how hard your week was. After a couple chapters, you will love your "hard life"I did!. Survival! I greatly enjoy reading about mountain men and their struggles to survive. Mr. Wheeler has written a series of books about this particular mountain man beginning with his escape from a British ship docked at Vancouver, BC to learning absolutely everything about the wild west.
All rights reserved. . Once a British seaman, Skye is a hunter and trapper in 1850s Yellowstone country, where he lives with his wife Victoria, a Crow Indian, and her people, the Absaroka. Exiled, Skye is tricked into working for a ruthless gang of fur traders who bilk the Indians for their valuable buffalo hides, doling out rotgut whiskey as payment. From Publishers Weekly Rough luck plagues mountain man Barnaby Skye in this fourteenth installment to Wheeler's colorful Skye's West series (The Deliverance, etc.). In what may be the best Skye's West novel to date, Wheeler deftly balances the violence and brutality of frontier life with the love and tenderness of a husband and wife caught between cultures.Copyright © Reed Business Infor
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. Or will they? Skye's love of whiskey puts his life, and Victoria's, in peril when they encounter a renegade band of Yankee traders taking a wagon-load of a cheap and poisonous raw alcohol to trade among the Indians. Victoria believes they have been sent by her spirit guide, and finds the strength to ride. Despite Skye's attempts at doctoring, Victoria's life hangs in the balance as the two, left alone in the frozen wilderness, struggle to survive cold and