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(More customer reviews)I first read this book 10 years ago, but never went on with the series. I decided to go back and reread this one. This book is an epic journey.
Not having read other books in the western genre, I can't compare this other such authors, but this novel stands very well on its own. It's very gritty: characters, and not just the 'bad' guys, are killed, tortured, and kidnapped. Parts of this sickened me. But there are interspersed moments of real joy, and Wheeler's descriptions of the vast open wilderness is amazing.
My only criticism is some of the characters come close to being 2D cardboard cutouts, but there is a lot of character development here to balance it out. Also, this is a book about the journey, not the destination, so don't expect all loose ends to be tied up. Recommended.
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They call him Mister Skye He's big, he's tough, and he knows the West as few others do the trails, the people, the weather - everything from which a tenderfoot needs to be protected. Skye's biggest problem is protecting people from themselves. Mister Skye has agreed, reluctantly, to lead a party of missionaries to the Blackfoot Nation: to get there, they must pass through land controlled by the Crow and patrolled by the Cheyenne. To get there, they must also stop fighting among themselves, fighting about everything: about the Roman Catholic priest who joined their party, about Mister Skye's two Indian wives who are traveling with them, about the items Mister Skye insists must be left behind. To get to where they are going, the missionary party will have to survive, and without Mister Skye - drunk or sober - they have no chance at all.
