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Skye's West #4
Yellowstone
The saga of Mr. Skye continues when he heads a wagon train through the Great Plains and into trouble. But what else could he expect with this group of misfits, prostitutes, gamblers, runaways, and mail-order brides?
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 15, 1990
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Richard S. Wheeler
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There are other authors with this name. One writes Marine Corps history. Another, Civil War history. Another writes in the political sciences.
Richard S. (Shaw) Wheeler was born in Milwaukee in 1935 and grew up in nearby Wauwatosa.
There are other authors with this name. One writes Marine Corps history. Another, Civil War history. Another writes in the political sciences.
Richard S. (Shaw) Wheeler was born in Milwaukee in 1935 and grew up in nearby Wauwatosa.
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October 6, 2022
I never tire of this series. Once again, the author gives me plenty to think about. It’s the studies in human nature as much as the storyline that keep me coming back.
If you look this up on Goodreads, you’ll be doing yourself a disfavor. They have the synopsis entirely wrong. The plotline of the actual book has nothing to do with the fictitious Goodreads synopsis.
Barnaby Skye and his two native-American wives are under contract to guide a British buffalo hunter to an area where the hunt will be at its best. There’s something about the priggish British Lord that cows Skye and takes away some of his starch. Naturally, it all has to do with his troubled past, and you can read that in the earlier books in the series.
One of his wives, the older of the two, has had visions of Skye in chains and dragged forcibly back to London, there to face life in prison. Skye disbelieves her initially, and the strain on the marriage becomes more than any of the three can stand.
But the British tourist and his bevy of empty-headed women becomes increasingly imperious. And Skye uncharacteristically lets that happen.
So well is this written that I wanted repeatedly to eradicate the pompous Brit by whatever means were at my disposal. I was stunned by how wilted Skye became in the presence of alleged royalty from the old country. I found it hard to believe that, after all these years in the untamed American wilderness where Queen Vicky was of no value or importance to the local citizenry, Barnaby Skye would feel such a pull to this despicable Brit whose tenderfoot decisions caused needless loss of life and property.
The most horrifying part of the book occurs when a rabid wolf bites Skye. The author grippingly tells a story of Frontier America devoid of rabies shots and the inevitability of death from the disease. The scenes re vividly memorable, and they’ll haunt you long after you read the book.
Yet again, Wheeler has produced a book I thoroughly enjoyed and grumbled when it ended.
If you look this up on Goodreads, you’ll be doing yourself a disfavor. They have the synopsis entirely wrong. The plotline of the actual book has nothing to do with the fictitious Goodreads synopsis.
Barnaby Skye and his two native-American wives are under contract to guide a British buffalo hunter to an area where the hunt will be at its best. There’s something about the priggish British Lord that cows Skye and takes away some of his starch. Naturally, it all has to do with his troubled past, and you can read that in the earlier books in the series.
One of his wives, the older of the two, has had visions of Skye in chains and dragged forcibly back to London, there to face life in prison. Skye disbelieves her initially, and the strain on the marriage becomes more than any of the three can stand.
But the British tourist and his bevy of empty-headed women becomes increasingly imperious. And Skye uncharacteristically lets that happen.
So well is this written that I wanted repeatedly to eradicate the pompous Brit by whatever means were at my disposal. I was stunned by how wilted Skye became in the presence of alleged royalty from the old country. I found it hard to believe that, after all these years in the untamed American wilderness where Queen Vicky was of no value or importance to the local citizenry, Barnaby Skye would feel such a pull to this despicable Brit whose tenderfoot decisions caused needless loss of life and property.
The most horrifying part of the book occurs when a rabid wolf bites Skye. The author grippingly tells a story of Frontier America devoid of rabies shots and the inevitability of death from the disease. The scenes re vividly memorable, and they’ll haunt you long after you read the book.
Yet again, Wheeler has produced a book I thoroughly enjoyed and grumbled when it ended.
January 1, 2009
If you like realistic "mountain man" type adventures, you'll like this series.
September 4, 2025
I had to take two stars away for sexism. And it is a shame because the author is good at describing the American west. The female characters have no personality and their lives and thoughts revolve around the men in the story. That is not how women think. Also the Native Americans did not rent out their wives or trade them for livestock. Women were treated as equals to the men, and could be tribal elders. It is possible this book turned at least one young woman to a career in pornography, because there is an adult actress name Skye West. Or maybe she saw it on a shelf but never read it. I did enjoy how he made British people seem like evil imperialists. The western has a hint of Bollywood to it.
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