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The Rocky Mountain Company [MultiFormat]
by Richard S. Wheeler
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In 1841, a St. Louis businessman had a dream: to open up the far reaches of the Yellowstone River and commerce with native tribes. So Guy Strauss put together a team of adventurers led by a half-civilized mountain man named Broken Leg Fitzhugh. The plan was to set up a trading post on the edge of a land he knew. Yet from the very beginning, the expedition was buffeted by disaster, plunging the men of the Rocky Mountain Trading Company into a desperate battle for survival. Out in the harsh wilder... more info>> (Published: 1991)
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Cheyenne Winter [MultiFormat]
by Richard S. Wheeler
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In 1841, St. Louis businessman Guy Strauss had sent his hopes, his son, and his money up the Missouri River to the Yellowstone, where he was opening a trading post under the command of a wild mountain man named Broken Leg Fitzhugh. Strauss knew the plan was fraught with danger. But he didn't know how many ways it could go wrong, or who would be the first to die. The Rocky Mountain Company had an enemy in a rival company, and Fitzhugh--fierce, profane, and proud--had one very deadly enemy of his ... more info>> (Published: 1992)
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The Canyon of Bones [Secure Mobipocket]
by Richard S. Wheeler
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 With the trapping trade on the decline, mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work as a guide, leading a wealthy Englishman, Graves Duplessis Mercer, and two companions on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer is a peculiar employer. He has come to the American wilderness seeking weird, morbid, thrilling, preferably slightly salacious, material to write up for British tabloids. He has little interest in such amazing natural phenomena as the geysers of the Yellowstone cou... more info>>
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The Exile [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Richard S. Wheeler
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Thomas Francis Meagher was a disturber of the peace. Banished from his native Ireland for sedition and exiled to remote Van Diemen's Land, the island off the south Australian coast, he escaped imprisonment and reached New York in 1852. Feted as "Meagher of the Sword", he rose to become an irresistible voice in Tammany politics, campaigning for Franklin Pierce and sitting for an interview by Horace Greeley. But Meagher's real passion was for his home country's separation from British rule and he ... more info>>
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