So Wild a Dream

ISBN: 0765305739

Title: So Wild a Dream

Author: Win Blevins

KDL Description:

An ambitious and daring young man, Sam Morgan leaves his home in 1820s Pennsylvania to seek adventure and fortune in the frontier West, accompanied by a colorful assortment of companions he meets along the way.

Amazon Description:

Pennsylvania, 1822 — the world beyond the Alleghenies, a place as distant in his mind as the moon, is about to open and swallow up young Sam Morgan. Although a callow and illiterate youth, Sam’s ambition is to see the world, and do greater things than his native Pennsylvania backcountry will allow. He is also smart, daring, and good-humored. He has a knack for getting along with older and craftier companions, among them a wise halfbreed Delaware Indian, a gambler and flim-flam artist, a riverboat skipper, a one-time prostitute, and an assortment of trail-hardened roughnecks returned from trapping in the far-off Snowy Mountains. Key to the new life he is about to find, Sam has a love for the wilderness and workable, if vague ideas of how to survive in it.

An authority on the fur trade era of the American West, Win Blevins opens his “Rendezvous Series” with Sam Morgan’s journey into the dangerous upper Missouri River country with a brigade of trappers to complete the first phase of his mountain education.