Downriver
Subtitle: a Barnaby Skye novel
By: Richard S. Wheeler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Skye's West ;; [12]
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Skye, Barnaby (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Paddle steamers -- Fiction; Indian women -- Fiction; Trappers -- Fiction; Missouri River -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: At the trapper's rendezvous in Wyoming, in 1838, Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, is offered an opportunity to become a post trader in his Crow Indian wife's homeland. He begins the journey to St. Louis to present himself as a candidate for the job and undergoes a lesson in survival on a Missouri River steamboat.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."