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Dreams Beneath Your Feet (Rendezvous)
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Product Description
Eighteen years have passed since Sam Morgan came West from Pennsylvania and learned the perilous business of trapping in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.
Now, in 1840, he seems to face a bleak future. The fur trade has played out and he must find other means of making a living.
Sam decides to return to California with his daughter Esperanza and start a new life. The great golden land represents a bitter memory — his beloved Crow Indian wife Meadowlark died there in childbirth — but friends convince him that his destiny lies on the Pacific shore.
Meadowlark’s uncle, Flat Dog, his family, and Hannibal MacKye, the half-Delaware mountain man, join Sam and Esperanza for the journey west, where they hope to trade for a herd of Appaloosa horses to sell at a profit in California.
At Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail, Sam and his people encounter a terrified woman, Lei Palua, who has escaped the clutches of a psychopath called Kanaka Boy, whose gang of killers and rapists has been terrifying Indian villages in the Northwest.
Sam Morgan and his people take Lei Palua under their wing unaware that her one-time lover and now bloodthirsty nemesis dogs her trail, vowing to kill her and all who stand in his way.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #672321 in Books
- Published on: 2008-11-25
- Released on: 2008-11-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9780765305787
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This is the sixth and best in Blevins's exciting Rendezvous series (following A Long and Winding Road) featuring mountain man Sam Morgan. It's 1840 and Sam, seeing the end of his beloved fur trade, decides to head for California and a settled life with his friend, Hannibal, and Sam's daughter, Esperanza, raised on the Crow reservation since her mother died in childbirth. The three of them along with a party of friends and Indian relatives endure harsh weather and forbidding terrain on their journey from the Wyoming territory to the coast, but the situation goes from bad to worse after they find and care for a badly injured woman, Lei Palua, who has escaped from a psychopathic gang whose leader, Kanaka Boy, vows to get her back. When Sam and his group are bushwhacked, their herd of horses stolen and Esperanza kidnapped by Kanaka Boy, Sam embarks on a rage-filled orgy of bloody violence. Blevins, a masterful western storyteller, really piles on the torture, mutilation and rape, but the action is fast-paced and the details of frontier life, the fur trade and Indian lore authentic. (Dec.)
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From Booklist
The popular Rendezvous series continues with its sixth installment, this one set in 1840, 12 years since A Long and Winding Road (2007). Sam Morgan is still a trapper, but he’s not sure for how much longer, as the fur trade is waning. Faced with the daunting task of finding a new way of life for himself and his daughter, Sam decides to return to California by way of the Oregon Trail. Along the way, he encounters a woman who claims she’s escaped from her kidnapper, the vicious Kanana Boy. Sam promises to protect the woman, but he doesn’t know that he may have vowed to give his own life to save hers. Fans of the Rendezvous series, it need hardly be said, will enjoy this novel; however, through some clever storytelling and the seamless insertion of important background information, Blevins has made sure that readers unfamiliar with the series can follow it, too. This is one of those westerns that’s more about its characters than it is about gunplay, although there are some exciting action scenes. --David Pitt
Review
"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, Associate Prof. of Native American Studies, University of New Mexico
