Win Blevins

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1955
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Novel of the Mountain Men Rendezvous

Dancing with the Golden Bear (Sep-2005)
Heaven Is a Long Way Off (Oct-2006)
A Long and Winding Road (Dec-2007)
Dreams Beneath Your Feet (Dec-2008)

Multi-Author Series List

Rivers West

1 - The Yellowstone (Aug-1988)
4 - The Powder River (Jun-1990)
8 - The Snake River (Nov-1992)
11 - The High Missouri (Jun-1994)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Misadventures of Silk and Shakespeare

    An overweight, bumbling ex-actor named Shakespeare and a boy named Silk are occasionally helped by an assortment of mountain people and Indians as they attempt to rescue a maiden and become knights in buckskin...

  • The Yellowstone

    Rivers West - 1

    An adventurer's story told as never before. The Los Angeles Times. Imagine ... Exploration and the grace to surrender to the dark, delicious grasp of a river. Native Americans, the first few white people who dared to explore the West, and the settler...

  • The Powder River

    Rivers West - 4

    RIVERS WEST Native Americans, hunters and trappers, pioneer families--all who braved the American West drew their very lives and fortunes from the great rivers. From the earliest days of the untamed frontier to the dawn of the twentieth century, her...

  • The Snake River

    Rivers West - 8

    Those who followed the treacherous, sidewinding course of the Snake were carried to some of the most beautiful country on earth: the untouched Pacific Northwest. Flare O'Flaherty--son of Ireland, mountain trapper, and gambler--agrees to lead a group ...

  • The High Missouri

    Rivers West - 11

    RIVERS WEST is one of the most exciting frontier series of our time...tales of mountain men and intrepid women, pioneer families and Native American warriors. Here is the story of North America in all its awesome splendor. THE HIGH MISSOURI They...

  • Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

    "The life of Crazy Horse, the greatest war chief of the Sioux Indian nation, is the subject of this MOVING AND AUTHENTICALLY DETAILED novel....Crazy Horse eagerly embraced the traditional warrior's skills, honor and purpose....Adorned with his distin...

  • The Rock Child

    Asie Taylor is a half-blood Indian raised by Mormons, a gifted musician and a sharp-tongued philosopher; Sun Moon is a Tibetan nun who has been kidnapped and sold into prostitution in California. Each is on the run--Asie toward his heritage and the s...

  • Ravenshadow

    In following the white man's road, Joseph Blue Crow has lost his Lakota heritage and is haunted by the loss. After the inexplicable suicide of the woman he loves, and as he sinks into alcoholism and despair and stands on the precipice of suicide, his...

  • So Wild a Dream

    Pennsylvania farmboy Sam Morgan learns the mountain man's perilous trade when, in 1822, he joins a fur brigade headed by keelboat to the trackless country of the Upper Missouri River. Sam is youthful and inexperienced but also strong, daring, and a q...



  • Beauty for Ashes

    Young Sam Morgan, serving his apprenticeship as a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains in the early 1820s, searches for Meadowlark, the Crow Indian girl he loves. At the Wind River village of Meadowlark's people, Sam finds her being courted by a Crow ...

  • Dancing with the Golden Bear

    A Novel of the Mountain Men Rendezvous

    Young Sam Morgan, the Pennsylvania runaway and now a seasoned Rocky Mountain trapper, joins a brigade led by Jedediah Smith, greatest mountain man of them all, heading west for the Mexican province of Alta California.

    With Sam on this dangerou...

  • Heaven Is a Long Way Off

    A Novel of the Mountain Men Rendezvous

    FOLLOWING THE DEATH IN CHILDBIRTH of his Crow Indian wife, Meadowlark, Sam Morgan flees Mexican-controlled California. But Sam, a young Pennsylvanian who is rising from teenage runaway to redoubtable mountain man, is haunted by Meadowlark's death and...

  • A Long and Winding Road

    A Novel of the Mountain Men Rendezvous

    A decade has passed since Sam Morgan of Pennsylvania ran away from disappointments at home and joined the rough-and-tumble life of a mountain man in the Far West. In those ten years, Sam has made his mark as a trapper, fighter, and survivor. Sam has...

  • Dreams Beneath Your Feet

    A Novel of the Mountain Men Rendezvous

    Eighteen years have passed since Sam Morgan came West from Pennsylvania and learned the perilous business of trapping in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Now, in 1840, he seems to face a bleak future. The fur trade has played out and he must...

  • The Adventures of Silk and Shakespeare

    High jinks, close calls, and adventures worthy of Don Quixote abound in this light-hearted romp through the West from Win Blevins, winner of the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature

    Shakespeare, a form...

  • Charbonneau

    As the son of the fur trapper and the Shoshone woman, Sacajawea, who were guides for the Lewis and Clark expedition, Charbonneau was a man divided between worlds. As a result, his life took a series of astonishing turns and left him painfully torn...

  • Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

    The epic story of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacajawea, and his quest to unite the two worlds in which he was raised: posh European society and the mystic American wilderness

    The son of two of Lewis and Clark’s guides -- S...

  • Stone Song

    Winner of the Spur Award and a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize: This classic tale of the West has been heralded by the Dallas Morning News as “a deeply spiritual story about the soul journey of a great and mysterious American hero” 

  • Give Your Heart to the Hawks

    For more than thirty years, the mountain men explored the Great American West, opening the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. Win Blevins' GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWKS is a poetic tribute to their incredible ad...



  • Fitz

    Get swept away by this never-before-seen western adventure from award-winning author Win Blevins that follows a larger-than-life young man as he discovers the untamed American West.Thomas Fitzpatrick always longed for something more-to see more, do m...

Award-Winning Books by Win Blevins

So Wild a Dream
2004 SPUR Award -- Novel of the West
Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse
1996 Reading the West -- Fiction
1996 Spur Award -- Novel of the West


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Win Blevins has published 20 books.

Win Blevins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fitz, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Win Blevins, The Misadventures of Silk and Shakespeare, was published in February 1955.

Yes. Win Blevins has 1 series.
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