Dreams Beneath Your Feet

Rendezvous #6

by Win Blevins

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.

Genres: Collections, Historical, Historical Fiction

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 25, 2008

About the author

Winfred Blevins

Reviews

[Mikel Rhodes · Rating 5 out of 5]

A absolutely marvelous and fascinating story based upon history.

I highly recommend the reading of this book, but you must start at the beginning of the series to truly understand and appreciate just how wonderful a story of the lifes and times of the Mountain Men and the discovery of America they brought about.

[Barb · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was so sad to see this series come to an end. I have loved watching all the characters grow and all the history behind the series.

[Theresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dreams Beneath Your Feet (Rendezvous Series #6)
by Win Blevins
The last in a series that I have to read, great story of sacrifice and love. As a young man Sam Morgan set out on the advice of a friend, Hannibal to follow his dreams, in the previous volumes he became trader, a trapper, an adventure, he has done a sun-dance to make up for a mistake, and fought in a war for his new people. Only to loose his wife in childbirth and his daughter to her family, in this volume I have come to love this strong character, and want to learn more of the story. During this story Sam has reconnected with his daughter now a young woman of 15, and finding that the trapper industry dyeing out he is going to Monte ray bay and beginning a new life in horse trading. Learn about your american history, about fur trappers, trades men and native plains Americas in this series.

[Lady Rabyah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautifully written piece of literature that gently eases you into the depth of Frontier living. Vivid and alluring Blevin takes you back to a time where the traditions of the Native people are documented with an honesty that borders on the brutal. An absolute pleasure to read.