Give Your Heart to the Hawks A Tribute to the Mountain Men

by Blevins, Win

• ISBN13: 9780765314352
• ISBN10: 0765314355
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-29
• Publisher: Forge

Summary

For more than thirty years, from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s, the mountain men explored the Great American West. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, they opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them.

Author Biography

Win Blevins is the author of a dozen novels, several volumes of informal history, and Dictionary of the American West. Among his awards: In 2003 Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers named him Writer of the Year,  Stone Song, won the a Spur Award and a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Fiction. Win's  his first novel in the Forge "Rendezvous" series, So Wild a Dream,  won the Spur award for Best Novel of the West in 2004.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction	p. 13
Preface	p. 17
The First Mountain Man	p. 21
The Great American Desert	p. 35
Mountain Skill, Mountain Luck	p. 38
The Trapper and Trapping	p. 59
Falstaff's Battalion	p. 63
Yarning	p. 90
Quest for Buenaventura	p. 110
Rendezvous	p. 135
Starvin'Times	p. 139
The Buffalo-Cuisine Premiere	p. 160
Rescue in Californy	p. 165
Mountain Craft	p. 187
A Choice of Allegiance	p. 191
Mountain Mating	p. 213
War in the Mountains	p. 218
Exploration of the West	p. 251
Invasion	p. 255
Trappers and Indians	p. 289
Alpenglow	p. 294
Chronology of the Fur Trade	p. 305
Glossary	p. 311
Notes	p. 317
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 329
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