Boxed sets-The Morning River and Coyote Summer should be bound as one.

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	• Coyote Summer W. Michael Gear Forge, 1997 - 427 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Boxed sets-The Morning River and Coyote Summer should be bound as one.

Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills RanchCoyote Summer is great fiction as is the first book The Morning River. If you like them you'll like "Buffalo..." and they arn't going to be on the same shelf until you get them home. Then plan on having one of the three missing all the time, loaned out to close friends,or in your own reading stack for the second or third time. Enjoy! totally different except the same passion for the land and its people.

The Morning River and Coyote Summer

Both The Morning River and Coyote Summer (two series books) are excellent historical novels. The stories are great but the learning they present are even better. It is my understanding that The Morning River (book 1) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize as it well should have been. Ironically, I enjoyed Coyote Summer (book 2) even more. Two GREAT books.

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This book -and series-is INCREDIBLE.

I did not want it to end.The writing alone, along with historical fact and life lessons, made me never want it to end.This book kind of reminded me a little of the Jeremiah Johnson movie , but with a student, stubborn and pigheaded.Michael Gear is without a doubt, a force in historical fiction, well up there with the ranks of Terry Johnston(God rest 'im).Can we have a sequel here?

Coyote Summer

After reading the prequill to this book, "The Morning River", I really dreaded it coming to an end. These two books showed how two different worlds could learn from each other and change their lives and the world around them.

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Praying for another sequel!

This is book two in the Man From Boston pair. One of the greatest frontier novels ever. Tons of history and lore about several native nations, contrasted with the white philosophy in the East. Characters are so well drawn I was sad to see it end. Hope that Mr. Gear has another one coming in this series because it is far better than the First Americans series in my opinion where the characters are not as deep and so numerous that they are hard to keep straight. This book gave me post-reading depression because its quality is hard to match. I felt the same way after reading Greg Matthews's Heart of the Country. Highly recommended.

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Upper Missouri River, 1825

Against the wild grandeur of the Rocky mountains and a richly woven tapestry of Indian cultures--Sioux, Mandan, Crow, Shoshoni--Coyote Summer unfolds into an unforgettable tale of love and reconciliation, destiny, and the indomitable spirit.

No two people could be more different: Heals Like A Willow, a beautiful young Shoshoni medicine woman, and Richard Hamilton, a Harvard philosophy student new to the frontier. Though they come from worlds apart, hindered by vastly different cultures, their souls have met and will not be denied.

But Willow has ties to the Spirit world and a responsibility to her people. In visions she has seen the coming White Storm brewing in the East--the endless stream of settlers overrunning the land, pouring ever westward. She must leave the trading posts, the river, and the company of white men. Even if it means leaving behind the one who has taken her heart.

Armed only with his philosophy, meaningless in the harsh reality of the Rockies, Richard sets out after her. Facing the endless expanse of mountains and snow, a new understanding dawns on Richard--that his desperate search for love and illumination may bear the ultimate price.

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