ASIN: B00890JK22
Publisher: Wordworx
Pages: 379
“Win Blevins has a terrific sense grand landscape of the West, and the grand characters who lived in it.” -- Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire.The Snake River defined the destiny of those few adventurers crazy and wild enough to take her on. Join a son of Ireland for the ride of a lifetime.Those who followed the treacherous, sidewinding course of the Snake were carried to some of the most beautiful country on earth, the untouched Pacific Northwest. Flare O’Flaherty–son of Ireland, mountain trapper, and gambler–agrees to lead a group of missionaries downriver to the remote headquarters of the mighty Hudson’s Bay Company. Along the way he faces the greatest challenge of a wandering man’s lifetime in the form of Margaret Jewell, an extraordinary woman who teaches Indian children.He also meets a young Shoshone, Sima, in search of the white father he never ...
