Beauty for ashes
Subtitle: Heaven is a long way off
By: Win Blevins
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780765382405
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Fur trade; Western stories; Fiction; Crow women; Indian captivities; Trappers; Mountain life; Explorers
Other titles: Heaven is a long way off
Description: 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 is 1827 and he, together with the trapping brigade commanded by Jedediah Smith, has been expelled from Mexican California. To his unending sorrow, Meadowlark, Sam's beloved Indian wife, has died in childbirth and he has been forced to abandon his infant daughter, Esperanza. Now, Sam is determined to reclaim his baby and take her to Meadowlark's village on the Wind River of Wyoming.
Notes: "Two complete novels, one price"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Beauty for ashes -- (c2004); title: Heaven is a long way off-- (c2006).