Sun River / Bannack

Skye's West #1-2

by Richard S. Wheeler

Two complete novels in one low-priced edition

Sun River
Mister Skye is big, tough, and knows the West as few others do. He's agreed to lead a party of missionaries to the Blackfoot Nation: to get there, they must pass through land controlled by the Crow and patrolled by the Cheyenne; and they must stop fighting among themselves about everything. To get there, the party won't survive at all, without Mister Skye.

Bannack
Barnaby Skye, a pressed seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Port Vancouver with little more than the clothes on his back. Fighting for life and starving, he heads inland, falling in with legendary mountain men such as Jim Bridger and Tom "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick. And in the Rocky Mountains he finds another unexpected turn in his life when he meets Many Quill Woman...

688 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 26, 2014

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

There are other authors with this name. One writes Marine Corps history. Another, Civil War history. Another writes in the political sciences.

Richard S. (Shaw) Wheeler was born in Milwaukee in 1935 and grew up in nearby Wauwatosa.

Reviews

[Joanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had heard about this series years ago, but never had the opportunity to check it out. Then I ran across this edition which has the first two novels in the series. It's more a historical story than a western as the protagonist, Barnaby Skye (Mr. Skye) is a mountain man and guide, not a gunslinger type. Not to say there isn't action because there is, but there's also a lot of nicely described imagery. I could feel like I was there in the upper mid-west. Lots of colorful characters and some surprises. I liked it and think it's worth checking out.