num_pages: 320
description: In this newest of Richard Wheeler's Barnaby Skye chronicles, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy, now a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, collects his Crow Indian wife Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria" as he calls her) and drifts south to Mexican territoryAt Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, Skye agrees to help StandingAlone, a mysterious Cheyenne woman, locate her two children who werekidnapped by Ute Indians several years before and sold into bondage inMexico.This impossible, dangerous, and foolhardy mission takes the three to Santa Fe and Taos and into a strange association with an eccentric Texas adventurer, Colonel Childress, who agrees to help them for reasons no one can guess. Deliverance is the 13th in a series of early American West frontiernovels featuring Barnaby Skye, the most beloved and enduring character inmodern Western fiction.
language: English
title: The Deliverance
titlecomplete: The Deliverance (Skye's West, #13)
genres: Westerns
ratings_count: 41
series: Skye's West
publisher: Forge Books