A spiritual quest turns into an adventure of the West in this gripping installment in Western Writers Hall of Fame author Win Blevins’s breathtaking series about the discovery of America’s Northern rivers and mountains.
They came from civilization to wilderness, from the way of the Cross to the Path of the Sacred Pipe, from the wisdom of Europe to the experience of exhilarating life in the American wilderness. Among them is an innocent named Dylan Campbell.
A would-be priest, Dylan signs up with the Nor’West Company to bring God to the Indians. But as he travels across the awesome plains of the West and up the mighty rivers hurtling down from the mountains, Dylan discovers worlds beyond all expectation. He encounters a mystical wanderer called the Druid and witnesses frightening acts of violence and carnality as well as paths of beauty and enlightenment beyond all imagining.
At Fort Augustus, a beautiful woman teaches Dylan about love, lust, and betrayal. Among the fierce and bloody Piegan Indians, a strange, white-bearded enemy instructs him about fate. And in his quest toward the legendary High Missouri River, Dylan learns what it means to brawl and scratch and struggle—not only for his life, but for his soul.
Reviews
“Rivers were the great highways into the West, and Win Blevins captures all their excitement.”
—Howard Hawks, director of Red River
“Win Blevins knows the mountain man years so well, he gives all his heart to doing what he loves to do best—tell a whale of a tale.” —John Cooke, author of South of the Border and On the Road with Janis Joplin
“The mystical wanderer, the Druid, is an extraordinary character, and the most surprising. What a saga!”–Fred McCabe, Publisher, The Jackson Hole Guide
“Win Blevins’ stories are free-spirited tales of mountain men and Indian people searching for new homes… Told with bawdy humor, action, romance, and a good measure of the unexpected.” – Elmer Kelton
“Early Win Blevins is just as good as Win Blevins today. Life in the mountains with the mountain men and those who explored first… Go along for the adventure!” –Gil Bateman, Co-founder of Wyndham Hill Records