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Downriver : a Barnaby Skye novel / Richard S. Wheeler.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.H4345 D69 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheeler, Richard S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paddle steamers.
- Skye, Barnaby (Fictitious character).
- Missouri River.
- Skye, Barnaby (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Paddle steamers--Fiction.
- Missouri River--Fiction.
- Indian women--Fiction.
- Indian women.
- Trappers--Fiction.
- Trappers.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Western stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Forge, 2001.
- Summary:
- At the trapper's rendezvous in Wyoming in 1838, Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, is offered an opportunity to become a post trader in his Crow Indian wife's homeland. He begins the journey to St. Louis to present himself as a candidate for the job and undergoes a lesson in survival on a Missouri River steamboat.
- Notes:
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- ISBN:
- 0312878451
- OCLC:
- 47643140
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