Books & Short Stories
Dreams Beneath Your Feet (2008)
The six-volume Rendezvous series comes to a grand finale. Sam Morgan and his Crow friend Flat Dog realize that the fur trade is dead and seek a place where their mixed-blood families can be accepted and prosper. Like millions of Americans since, they decide that the land of their dreams is California. But it's never easy to get to paradise. The overland journey turns out to be daunting, and along the way a Hawaiian of unmatched viciousness does his best to stop them. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY reviewed this volume as "the best of this popular series."
A Long & Winding Road (2007)
Sam Morgan and his son Tomas are stunned by the news: Navajos have kidnapped Tomas's adopted sisters. The two men make a dangerous journey deep into Navajoland seeking the women and struggling to resolve their father-son issues. Their desperate adventure becomes a long trail. The women have been sold as slaves to another tribe, which has sold them to someone else. The chase leads to the rendezvous on the Green River, to Bent's Fort, and finally back to Taos, and a surprise ending.
Heaven Is A Long Way Off (2006)
High-adrenalin adventures in the Old Mexico of the 1820's. Mountain
Sam Morgan goes to California to rescue his daughter and his brother-in-law,
then fights to save Indians from slave traders in New Mexico.
Dancing with the Golden Bear (2005)
The third volume of the story of trapper Sam Morgan. Now Sam and his
new Crow bride, Meadowlark, make the first cross-continental journey
to California."The Rendezvous series is truly magnificent, accurate and living
history as only a writer who loves both history and the West can make
it."--Roundup Magazine
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Buffalo (2005)
A heartfelt tribute to the real and mythical beast of the West, then
and now, gorgeously illustrated.
So Wild a Dream (2003)
The first of six books telling a grand story of mountain men and Indians.
"A fabulous beginning of what promises to become a classic series
that will be on college reading lists in history classes studying the
fur-reade era."-Roundup Magazine
ravenShadow (1999)
A story of Wounded Knee and its impact on the Sioux people, then and now.
"ravenShadow has the impact of a hurled war lance." —Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse (1994)
"This novel is a genuine masterpiece. I can't imagine any book, past or future, novel or biography, that can approach it in giving the reader a sense of who this mysterious man really was and what he stood for." —Rocky Mountain News
The Rock Child (1997)
An unlikely trio comprised of an Indian, a Tibetan nun, and Sir Richard
Burton—the famous soldier and explorer--flee a killer on the California
Trail in 1862.
Give Your Heart to the Hawks (1973)
This classic history of the mountain men in a handsome new edition.
"Blevins portrays the incredible lives of such men as Jed Smith,
Jim Bridger, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Bill Williams, while he looks for
the greater story, the story of their experiences, rather than the
political realities of their era."
—Amazon.com (Get this book from
the author win@winblevins.com )
Dictionary of the American West (2001)
"There has never been anything like this enchanting book. It is inconceivable that anyone wih the faintest interest in the West, in its history, facts and fables, idioms and mores, can ever again be without this exhaustive bible of the West."-Alistair Cooke
Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams
The life of the son of Sacajawea, who was both fully white and fully Indian. Through extensive research he is seen as a guide, trapper, and guest in a German court.