Barnaby Syke Novel
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There is a season for all things...For Barnaby Skye, legendary guide and man of the borders, it is time to start a new life. For Skye's young wife, the beautiful Shoshone woman he calls Mary, it is a time to find the beloved son she has not seen in seven years. For Skye's half-blood son, North Star, it is time to discover who he is. And for Skye's older Crow wife, Victoria, the whole world is spinning out of control. In this sweeping novel of the early West, Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation lands. How can people born and bred to tribal life learn to love another way?
Famed mountain man Barnaby Syke and his two wives, Victoria of the Crow and Mary of the Shoshone, lead a party of tubercular young people to the South Western desert. The ailing travellers hope to find a cure in the warm, dry climate near the Virgin River. Syke and his wives must safely lead their charges across Utah at a time of heightened tension between the federal government and the Latter-day Saints. Syke soon discovers that other wagon companies on the trail fear the sick and blame them for every ill event along the route. Taking a party of ailing people along the California trail requires every bit of skill and courage that Syke and his wives can muster...And hovering over the trip is the looming catastrophe of war.