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| Original Title: | The Morning River |
| ISBN: | 0812551532 (ISBN13: 9780812551532) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Man From Boston #1 |
W. Michael Gear
Paperback | Pages: 512 pages Rating: 4.19 | 341 Users | 29 Reviews
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During the winter of 1825, Richard Hamilton--a timid Harvard philosophy student--arrives in St. Louis on business for his father. Robbed and beaten, desperate to save his life, he reluctantly joins the crew of the Maria, a fur trader's keelboat. Bound for the beautiful, wild, and dangerous Indian country of the Upper Yellowstone River, the native Bostonian begins the education and adventure of a lifetime.On a converging path is Packrat, a Pawnee warrior who captures a beautiful young Shoshone medicine woman named Heals Like a Willow. But slaves with ties to the spirit world can--and do--fight back.
As the Maria struggles deeper into the wilderness, Richard and Willow are cast together: seekers of knowledge and spirit, unwitting adversaries separated by time, space, and birthright. As inevitable as the collision of their two worlds, their love begins to unfold--and with it the terrible consequences of a forbidden consummation.
Morning River is the first novel in W. Michael Gear's Man from Boston series--a historical fiction saga of the dangers and possibilities of the American frontier.
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| Title | : | The Morning River (Man From Boston #1) |
| Author | : | W. Michael Gear |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 1997 by Forge Books (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
Rating Of Books The Morning River (Man From Boston #1)
Ratings: 4.19 From 341 Users | 29 ReviewsCommentary Of Books The Morning River (Man From Boston #1)
Cliche after cliche wrapped in Harlequinn romance novel prose. Horrid.What a fun book! The writing was creative and had great flow. Richard's father casts him out into the hard, cruel world with a task to complete - leave Boston with $30,000 and deliver it to St. Louis. Richard, a Harvard student, had intentions of staying in Boston and becoming a professor. His father found him weak, useless, and insisted that this task would either make a man of him or would kill him. On the last day, Richard refused the gun his father offered, insisting that he could reason
Loved this book, descriptions were very evocative
I have read this book several times. It follows young Philosophy student Richard Hamilton. He is idealistic and believe he can learn everything from his books. His father believes, his son needs to grow up and learn responsibility. Richard is sent on a business errand for his father. In the West we meet Travis Hartman, scarred and Mountain smart. He is an amazing character. Travis has to decide if soft Richard, is worth his time. Or is he too soft? We also meet Heals like a Willow, a Shoshone
One of my all time favorite coming of age stories. Gear is a trained archaeologist and historian. His knowledge of native Americans serves as the focal point in many of his stories and this to me is his finest writing about the intrusion of white civilization on the western United States. A capable writer, Gear is also a teacher at heart and contained in this two part story (Coyote Summer) is an amazing look at life in the early 1800s along the Missouri River. The characters are well fleshed out
The morning River By W. Michael GearA great historical story showing the passion of Richard Hamilton to change the world but finds that there is more to life then he ever imagined... His struggles into the wilderness not only opened his eyes to a new way of life, and that other people have a similar solution to life's problems that he was struggling with. This book is a philosophical look at the pioneer spirit, and the Manifest Destiny that brought men into the west. This book has so much of a
Naive Harvard idealist meets rugged frontier wilderness. Poor Richard Hamilton, the affable, yet toolish young chap from Boston, is totally devoted to his philosophical bffs--Kant, Voltaire and Rousseau. In fact, as young Hamilton initially believes, there isn't any problem that can't be reasoned. Violence and savagery are the modus operandi on the western frontier precisely because it lacks the cultivation of ideals normal for civilized society. It would be tragic if young Richard found himself
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