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^ Where the Rivers Run North ✓ PDF Read by ! Sam Morton eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Where the Rivers Run North "A wonderful visit to a remote part of our country" according to Dahlin. I shall probably never visit the part of the world Sam Morton describes in Where Rivers Run North, but now I can imagine being there as if I were floating over the hills and streams. The history of the various settlers, Indians, English, Cowboys, is fascinating as is the history of the use of the horse. For instance, I had never thought of the thousands of horses that were shipped out to serve in WWI or what happened to the
| Title | : | Where the Rivers Run North |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0979084105 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
He received his BA in history from Guilford College in 1981 and has written for several publications, including American Cowboy, Polo Players Edition, Sidelines, and Pine Straw Magazine. . Sam Morton has worked as a horse trainer in Northern Wyoming and South Florida for over thirty years. He resides in Big Horn, Wyoming, during the summer and Wellington, Florida, during the winter
"A wonderful visit to a remote part of our country" according to Dahlin. I shall probably never visit the part of the world Sam Morton describes in Where Rivers Run North, but now I can imagine being there as if I were floating over the hills and streams. The history of the various settlers, Indians, English, Cowboys, is fascinating as is the history of the use of the horse. For instance, I had never thought of the thousands of horses that were shipped out to serve in WWI or what happened to them or where they came from. After reading this book go to Google Earth and you will be able to see where Morton's English horse breeders lived and raced. And you can . "Pros & Cons" according to Robins wink. The Pros - Well researched book that was interesting from an historical perspective about the Big Horn Mountains, Sheridan and Montana during the earliest settlements by white settlers. Many descriptions were very accurate and brought back many memories of the area and a few of the families.The Cons ~ The proof reader and/or editor needed to get glasses. It was full of errors and where many dates should have been given, they were altogether omitted. Sometimes it was seriously irritating when you hoped you were on a good chronological trail to find you had been dumped into another decad. Disjointed and frustrating read I chose this book ahead of a camping trip to Montana. I wanted something that would give me a greater appreciation of the landscape and the history of the place. This book failed to come close. There were parts that were quite good. The story of Crazy Horse was a major highlight. The importance of horses to the culture is also conveyed early on and is maybe the only constant in the book.Unfortunately for me, the disjointed nature of the book overwhelmed the positives. For chapters at a time (it felt like a quarter of the book) characters would be introduced and leave in the space of a
. About the Author Sam Morton has worked as a horse trainer in Northern Wyoming and South Florida for over thirty years. He resides in Big Horn, Wyoming, during the summer and Wellington, Florida, during the winter. He received his BA in history from Guilford College in 1981 and has written for several publications, including American Cowboy, Polo Players Edition, Sidelines, and Pine Straw Magazine
From the days when Native American tribes dominated the landscape to the hardships of fledgling pioneer life to times of fast-paced modern development, Where the Rivers Run North introduces a shifting cast of characters as intriguing as they are diverse. He was nominated by the Sheridan County Historical Society. Morton's extensively researched fiction carries the reader through three eras in the history of Abraska, or what is now southern Montana and northern Wyoming. One thread runs throughout--the figure of the horse, whether running wild on the plains or competing on the racetrack. Winner of the Wyoming State Historical Society Award in the Historical Fiction category Experience the untamed beauty of early America in Where the Rivers Run North, a new historical novel from Sam Morton. The committee chose the book as 'a well-written epic for its story of horses; the widely diverse peoples who raised, used, and sold them; and the land that shaped them all." According to the nomination, the author spent
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