A Long and Winding Road

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		A Long and Winding Road
		A Long and Winding Road

基本信息·出版社：Forge Books
·页码：352 页
·出版日期：2007年11月
·ISBN：0765305771
·International Standard Book Number：0765305771
·条形码：9780765305770
·EAN：9780765305770
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Rendezvous

内容简介 A decade has passed since Sam Morgan of Pennsylvania ran away from disappointments at home and joined the rough-and-tumble life of a mountain man in the Far West. In those ten years, Sam has made his mark as a trapper, fighter, and survivor. Sam has also endured tragedy: An explorative venture into California, five years past, ended when his Crow Indian wife, Meadowlark, died in childbirth. And now his lover, the widow Paloma Luna, owner of a wealthy rancho in Taos, is dying of cancer and setting out for Mexico City to pray at the shrine of the Virgin de Guadalupe. Distraught, Sam finds a mission for himself when he determines to find and rescue two Mexican girls, Lupe and Rosalita, who have been kidnapped from their village by Navajo raiders and spirited off into the New Mexico wilderness.  The search for the captive girls takes him deep into Navajo, Ute, and Blackfeet Indian territory, to Bent’s Fort in Colorado, near death at the hands of a companion, and finally to a surprise at the end of the trail involving the missing girls and a trapper called Pegleg Smith.
作者简介 Win Blevins, an authority on the Plains Indians and fur-trade era of the West, is author of Give Your Heart to the Hawks, Stone Song, his prize-winning novel of Crazy Horse, Charbonneau, Rock Child, and RavenShadow, as well as the Rendezvous novels. He lives in Utah with his wife Meredith, also a novelist.
媒体推荐   "The glory years of frontier life, fresh and rich."--Kirkus Reviews on Beauty for Ashes

"Blevins possesses a rare skill in masterfully telling a story-to-paper. He is a true storyteller in the tradition of Native people."--Lee Francis, Associate Prof. of Native American Studies, University of New Mexico
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

Blevins's ninth western novel—the fifth to feature mountain man Sam Morgan—picks up in 1828 as Sam and his trapper friends are whooping it up at a Mexican double wedding in Santa Fe. Shortly after the ceremony, the two brides are kidnapped by Navajo raiders, which enrages Sam because the women are his adopted daughters. Accompanied by his hotheaded adopted son, Tomás, and trapper Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, Sam sets out in pursuit, though his heart is heavy because his lover, Paloma Luna de Otero, is dying of breast cancer. The rescue mission is hampered, threatened and deceived by a corrupt Mexican governor, manipulative Indian chiefs, devious white men and murderous raiders. By the time Sam catches up with the two captive girls, he is faced with a surprise that confounds him and leads to murder. Blevins is a master of mountain man lore, and he certainly knows the beaver and buffalo hide business, as well as the politics of the region and era. Loaded with action, drama, vivid descriptions and colorful historical characters, this is a whopper of a western yarn. (Dec.)
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文摘 Chapter 1  A wedding procession delighted Santa Fé as much as anything except, maybe, a fandango. Old men and women, young boys and girls, courting teenagers, couples with the responsibility of families, the sober, the drunk, people who were happy, or habitually unhappy—everyone turned out to see the bridal party parade toward the church. People lifted their flasks and cried “Hola!” The town was celebrating.
In that spirit Sam Morgan breathed in the clear autumn air, looked around at his fellow riders, hoisted his jug, and took another swig. He knew it was too early to get swoopy, but this was a great day. He reached from one jouncing horse to another and handed the Taos lightning back to Pegleg Smith.
Kit Carson grabbed the jug from Pegleg, gurgled deep and long, and passed it on. Smith, who seemed to be drunk every day, growled at him. Carson answered by glaring back comically. “Coy!” said Carson. “Bite that man’s peg leg!”
Coy, Sam’s pet coyote, gave Carson a disgusted look.
Pegleg had a reputation for fierce and wild. Once when he got wounded, the man cut off his own leg. Now he wrenched the whiskey away from someone and chugalugged. Then he fired his rifle into the air and roared, “I am a one-legged, whiskey-drinkin’, woman-chasin’, alligatin’ son of a mountain lion and a grizzly b’ar!”
Coy barked. Sam often wondered what the coyote’s commentary meant.
“Ye-e-e-ha-a-w!” whooped Hannibal MacKye. Hannibal liked to act drunk when he wasn’t—a safer way to go, he said. For good measure he fired his rifle into the air. KA-BOOM!
All the boys fired their rifles and hollered. Carson pulled his pistol out of his belt and shot the handgun off too. Sam grinned—both weapons were now empty. “Kit,” said Sam, “if the Comanch hit us now, you got no pecker in your pants pouch.”
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