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02774aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 F376F90AB69E11E592835DCEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 150121t20152004nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 9780765382405 020 $a 0765382407 035 $a (OCoLC)900594608 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d IHX $d OCLCO $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Blevins, Winfred, $e author. 245 10 $a Beauty for ashes ; $b Heaven is a long way off / $c Win Blevins. 246 15 $a Heaven is a long way off 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, $c 2015 300 $a 614 pages : $b map ; $c 19 cm. 500 $a "Two complete novels, one price" -- cover. 505 00 $t Heaven is a long way off $g (c2006). $t Heaven is a long way off $g (c2006). 520 $a Beauty for ashes: A sequel to "So Wild a Dream" finds 1820s apprentice mountaineer Sam Morgan traveling with a fur brigade in search of the Crow Native American woman he loves, an endeavor for which he must adopt the ways of her people and escape capture by the Sioux. 520 $a Heaven is a long way off: Sam Morgan, once a young runaway from Philadelphia, now a seasoned fur trapper and mountain man, faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life. It is 1827 and he, together with the trapping brigade commanded by Jedediah Smith, has been expelled from Mexican California. To his unending sorrow, Meadowlark, Sam's beloved Indian wife, has died in childbirth and he has been forced to abandon his infant daughter, Esperanza. Now, Sam is determined to reclaim his baby and take her to Meadowlark's village on the Wind River of Wyoming. In Santa Fe, Sam meets a beautiful widow known as Dona Paloma and the two become lovers. Then, after the herd of horses belonging to Sam and his companions are sold for a healthy profit, he returns to California to reunite with his daughter only to learn she has been taken captive in an Indian raid. Sam's desperate mission to rescue his daughter, their escape in a frail craft down a rampaging river, and their long trek to Santa Fe, is a harrowing tale told by a master of the historical novel. 650 0 $a Trappers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Indian captivities $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Rocky Mountains $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mountain life $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Crow women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fur trade $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Smith, Jedediah Strong, $d 1799-1831 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Explorers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Western stories. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310011311.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F376F90AB69E11E592835DCEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search