Kate’s 2¢: “Heaven Is a Long Way Off: a novel of the mountain men”; “Beauty For Ashes; A Novel of the Mountain Men”; A long and winding road: a novel of the mountain men” by Winfred Blevins

“Heaven Is a Long Way Off: a novel of the mountain men”; “Beauty For Ashes; A Novel of the Mountain Men”; A long and winding road: a novel of the mountain men”   by  Winfred Blevins

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I seem drawn to the historical fiction stories. The old wild west days of the beaver trappers, mountain law and lore.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: winblevins.com

   Win Blevins (born October 21, 1938)[1] is an American author of fiction and non-fiction. He has written many books about the western mountain trappers,[2] and is known for his “mastery of western lore.”[3] His notable works include Stone Song, So Wild a Dream, and Dictionary of the American West. According to WorldCat, the Dictionary of the American West is held in 728 libraries.[4]

   Blevins, of Cherokee, Welsh-Irish, and African-American descent, is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas. After attending school in St. Louis, Missouri, he moved to New York, where he received a master’s degree from Columbia University, graduating with honors, and continued to California, where he was graduated from the Music Conservatory of the University of Southern California.[6]

Journalism and Writing Career[edit]

Win Blevins started his writing career as a music and drama reviewer for the Los Angeles Times. He then became the entertainment editor and principal theater and movie critic of the Hearst newspaper in Los Angeles, the Herald Examiner.[9] His first book was published in 1973 and since then he has made a living as a free-lance writer. He has written articles for magazines,[10][11] essays,[12] published forty books, one a dictionary, several travel guides to the West, and the rest novels, including fantasy, historical fiction and modern works of the West such as his contemporaries Rudolfo Anaya, John Nichols, Scott Momaday, Max Evans and Barbara Kingsolver write. For fifteen years he was an editor at Macmillan Publishing. From 2010 – 2012, Win spent two years as Gaylord Family Visitor Professor of Professional Writing at the University of Oklahoma.[13]

Screenplays[edit]

He has also written thirteen screenplays, including Atlas Shrugged for Al Ruddy; several for Paramount Pictures; The King of Paris with Dale Wasserman for CBS; The Real Dracula with Dale Wasserman (for Telly Savalas), CBS; Spring in Czechoslovakia for David Picker; John Milius’s A-Team; Oonadaga for NBC; The Last Free Man for Fred Read, and six others. (In 1974 David Picker announced he would produce Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail directed by John Milius and written by Winfred Blevins, about Theodore Roosevelt.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Heaven is a long way off: a novel of the mountain men DB70420

Blevins, Winfred. Reading time: 9 hours, 44 minutes.
Read by Jim Zeiger. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Historical Fiction
Adventure
Western Stories

California, 1820s. Wanted for murder, widowed mountain man Sam Morgan must elude authorities while he searches for his infant daughter Esperanza, who he believes has been kidnapped by a wealthy don. Sequel to Dancing with the Golden Bear (RC 70377). Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2006.

A long and winding road: a novel of the mountain men DB70528

Blevins, Winfred. Reading time: 10 hours, 7 minutes.

Read by Jim Zeiger. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Historical Fiction

Adventure

Western Stories

New Mexico, 1833. Sam Morgan sets out to rescue two brides kidnapped by Navajo raiders. Sam’s adopted son Tomás–a former slave–joins him, as does Sam’s fellow trapper Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacajawea. Sequel to Heaven Is a Long Way Off (RC 70420). Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2007.

Beauty for ashes DB70220

Blevins, Winfred. Reading time: 12 hours, 45 minutes.

Read by Jim Zeiger. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Historical Fiction

Adventure

Western Stories

Rocky Mountains, 1820s. Mountain man Sam Morgan seeks Meadowlark, the Crow woman he loves. But when Sam faces competition from a Crow warrior, he realizes he must learn the tribe’s ways to win Meadowlark’s heart. Sequel to So Wild a Dream (DB 61705). Some violence and some strong language. 2004.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

A long and winding road: a novel of the mountain men DB70528

Blevins, Winfred. Reading time: 10 hours, 7 minutes.

Read by Jim Zeiger. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Historical Fiction

Adventure

Western Stories

New Mexico, 1833. Sam Morgan sets out to rescue two brides kidnapped by Navajo raiders. Sam’s adopted son Tomás–a former slave–joins him, as does Sam’s fellow trapper Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacajawea. Sequel to Heaven Is a Long Way Off (RC 70420). Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2007.