Winfred Blevins

Blevins offers a tribute to the "first Westerners" who explored the Great American West. Stories include those of John Colter, who escaped captivity by the Blackfeet Indians, and Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a grizzly bear and crawled 300 miles for help.

Ride down the greatest American rivers of the West with Native Americans, mountain men, French trappers, bold women, and mystical wanderers. The Wild Rivers West series is richly told historical fiction of high adventure. Longings and determination are experienced through the characters, events, and luxurious writing. Read it. Live it! Native Americans, the first few white people who dared to explore the West, and the settlers who followed all, braved...

The northern Cheyenne still called the lush Powder river country their sacred home. But now, far to the south in harsh Indian Territory, the bitter remnants of that once-mighty nation were growing feeble and dying. To survive, they must return to their ancestral home across 1500 miles, eluding pursuit by thousands of well-armed soldiers. Joining their outnumbered band were Adam Smith Maclean, a half-breed torn between two opposing ways of life,...

Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s. This time out, however, he is searching for his lost love--the Indian maiden Meadowlark.

Sam Morgan is mourning the loss of his wife Meadowlark and determined to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But his journey is fraught with danger as Mexican authorities, Mojave Indians, and a host of other obstacles stand in his way.

Sam Morgan and his wife Meadowlark accompany legendary mountain man Jedediah Smith on an expedition into Mexican California territory. But while filled with adventure, their trek is also marked by hardships and tragedy.

Beauty for ashes: A sequel to "So Wild a Dream" finds 1820s apprentice mountaineer Sam Morgan traveling with a fur brigade in search of the Crow Native American woman he loves, an endeavor for which he must adopt the ways of her people and escape capture by the Sioux. Heaven is a long way off: Sam Morgan, once a young runaway from Philadelphia, now a seasoned fur trapper and mountain man, faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life. It...