So Wild a Dream, Win Blevins
So Wild a Dream, Win Blevins
List: $29.99 | Sale: $21.00
Club: $14.99

So Wild a Dream

Author: Win Blevins

Narrator: Ed Sala

Unabridged: 12 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/02/2010

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Named Writer of the Year in 2003 by Wordcraft Circle of Native writers, Win Blevins has built a considerable literary legacy with his novels set in the early 19th-century American heartland. Escaping his life in 1820s Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat. Mixing with an eclectic group of scoundrels and misfits, Sam finds adventure at every turn on the American frontier.

About Win Blevins

Win Blevins is the New York Times bestselling author of a dozen novels, several volumes of informal history, and Dictionary of the American West. He has won the Western Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame. His works include the novel Stone Song, which won the Spur Award and a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Fiction. So Wild a Dream won the Spur Award for Best Novel of the West. In 2003, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers named him Writer of the Year.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on August 13, 2012

Good book about the mountain men first going into the wild. More books follow this one. First in a series.......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on January 01, 2017

This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book Rated 4.0 of 5 Win Blevins is an author whom I had not heard of before reading this, though that's likely because my exposure to western fiction has been severely limited. In So Wild a Dream, young man Sam Morgan begins an epic journey. Steal......more

Goodreads review by Dave on May 18, 2020

This was a pretty good yarn about mountain men opening up the US West, which seems to be based on sound research. The characters and the stories are mildly interesting although the approach seems somewhat formulaic: our hero has a plan then something goes wrong, our hero reacts to the challenge and......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on September 03, 2020

A deeply American tale In nearly cinematic detail Blevens takes us along as a young man, just a teenager, heads west from Pennsylvania, encounters an astounding range of characters and begins to find himself. More of a man’s book, but it had me hooked from the start. Enough real history to make me fe......more

Goodreads review by Mikel Rhodes on February 09, 2018

A great story based on facts. This book is a top of the line historical fiction about the men who opened the west. The book is very well documented with real men and fictional men. The author is meticulous in maintaining historical integrity in all his characters. I highly recommend the reading of th......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List