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The Morning River

During the winter of 1825, Richard Hamilton — a timid Harvard philosophy student — arrives in St. Louis on business for his father. Robbed and beaten, desperate to save his life, he reluctantly joins the crew of the Maria, a fur trader's keelboat. Bound for the beautiful, wild, and dangerous Indian country of the Upper Yellowstone River, the native Bostonian begins the education and adventure of a lifetime.

On a converging path is Packrat, a Pawnee warrior who captures a beautiful young Shoshone medicine woman named Heals Like a Willow. But slaves with ties to the spirit world can — and do — fight back.

As the Maria struggles deeper into the wilderness, Richard and Willow are cast together: seekers of knowledge and spirit, unwitting adversaries separated by time, space, and birthright. As inevitable as the collision of their two worlds, their love begins to unfold — and with it the terrible consequences of a forbidden consummation.

Morning River is the first novel in W. Michael Gear's Man from Boston series — a historical fiction saga of the dangers and possibilities of the American frontier.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 512
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780812551532
  • Genres
  • fiction, westerns, historical
  • Release date
  • 1997