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Seller: Elk River Books (ABAA/ILAB), Livingston, MT, U.S.A.Elk River Books (ABAA/ILAB)
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Signed by author on title page. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 349. Navy boards with gilt titling. Publisher's promotional materials laid in. Boards show bumping at tail of spine.
Seller Inventory # 36680
- Title
- The First Dance
- Author
- Wheeler, Richard S.
- Publisher
- Forge, New York
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0765322021
- ISBN 13
- 9780765322029
- Edition
- First edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Westerns
The First Dance takes beloved mountain man Barnaby Skye's family to its third generation in North America.
Miles City, Montana. 1885. Barnaby Skye's mixed-blood son, Dirk, has just married a beautiful Metis girl, Therese. But Dirk’s position as a civilian translator for the U.S. army threatens to shatter their union.
Montana ranchers wrestling with livestock theft and the incursion of settlers into their range have persuaded the army to send the Metis people back to Canada. The military enlists Dirk to translate between the two sides in the brutal campaign.
Unable to reconcile her love for Dirk with the pain he is inflicting on her people, Therese flees on their wedding night. Heartbroken, Dirk rides off with the army.
Therese has a powerful vision. She is inspired to build a church that will be a gathering place for her people and a symbol of their resistance to deportation.
The suffering refugees--driven into the wilderness by Yankee soldiers and cruel ranch vigilante gangs--find a friend in Dirk and an inspiration in Therese. In their common cause, the lovers are reunited
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About the Author
RICHARD S. WHEELER is the author of more than fifty novels of the American West. He holds five Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions to the literature of the West. He lives in Livingston, Montana, near Yellowstone Park, and is married to Sue Hart, an English professor at Montana State University in Billings.
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Elk River Books is a partnership between poet Marc Beaudin and journalist Andrea Peacock. We opened our doors in 2011, and moved to our current location in 2021. We offer affordable, high quality books, journals, maps, note cards (many by local artists) and other literary gifts. The store specializes in collectible outdoor literature, books by regional authors and the Montana Gang, visual and literary arts, and western history.
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120 N. Main St., PO Box 2212
Livingston, MT U.S.A. 59047
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