The Deliverance

Skye's West #13

by Richard S. Wheeler

In this newest of Richard Wheeler's Barnaby Skye chronicles, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy, now a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, collects his Crow Indian wife Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria" as he calls her) and drifts south to Mexican territory

At Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, Skye agrees to help Standing
Alone, a mysterious Cheyenne woman, locate her two children who were
kidnapped by Ute Indians several years before and sold into bondage in
Mexico.

This impossible, dangerous, and foolhardy mission takes the three to Santa Fe and Taos and into a strange association with an eccentric Texas adventurer, Colonel Childress, who agrees to help them for reasons no one can guess.

Deliverance is the 13th in a series of early American West frontier
novels featuring Barnaby Skye, the most beloved and enduring character in
modern Western fiction.

Genres: Westerns, Historical Fiction

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 19, 2003

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

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.

Reviews

[Shabazz · Rating 4 out of 5]

LONG LIVE SHINE

[Violet · Rating 4 out of 5]

A continuing saga of the Barnaby Skye character. This time, he and his Crow wife are assisting a Cheyenne mother in the search for two of her children taken by the Utes. They team up with an odd fella who does have a cart and horses for travel, as well as a very clever monkey for entertainment. As with most fiction, Mister Skye has a close shave with death at the hands of the Mexican officials but the monkey saves him and all ends well. A very entertaining story. I think these would make good movies.

[Topher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Barnaby Skye and Victoria take on slavery in Mexico, in the company of a mysterious fool. Things end...as expected: sadly.

[Sherrill · Rating 3 out of 5]

another wilderness hero and his indain wife...these types I like when they accomplish the task