Carry the Wind, Terry C. Johnston
Carry the Wind, Terry C. Johnston
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Carry the Wind

Author: Terry C. Johnston

Narrator: Alex Boyles

Unabridged: 30 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/03/2020

Synopsis

Carry the Wind is a gripping historical saga set in the Old West during a time when the horizon never ended and a nation was being born.Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis in 1831, didn’t have much hope of survival. Winter was coming to the Rocky Mountains, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn’t kill him, grizzlies or Indians would. Then his luck turned. He stumbled across the trail of Ol’ Scratch, a solitary mountain man eager enough for company to take the brash youngster under his wing.Pure chance brought Paddock to the old trapper’s camp, but it was skill with a gun and a knife that kept them both alive as they rode deep into the majestic land of Blackfeet and Crow Indians, bible-spouting pioneers, and sensual women where only the best and bravest survived—and only the luckiest rode back again.Carry the Wind is a gripping historical saga set in the Old West during a time when the horizon never ended and a nation was being born.

About Terry C. Johnston

Terry C. Johnston (1947–2001) is recognized as a master of the American historical novel. His grand adventures of the American West combine the grace and beauty of a natural storyteller with complete dedication to historical accuracy and authenticity. He was born in 1947 on the plains of Kansas and lived all his life in the American West. His first novel, Carry the Wind, won the Medicine Pipe Bearer Award from the Western Writers of America, and his subsequent books have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the country.

About Alex Boyles

Alex Boyles has been acting pretty much his entire life. He got his BA in theater–acting/directing performance from CSU Long Beach and his MFA in acting performance from Ohio State University. He started narrating audiobooks in 2019 and hasn’t looked back!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on December 01, 2007

Terry C. Johnston was born in 1947 on the plains of Kansas and has lived a varied life as a roustabout, history teacher, printer, paramedic, dog catcher, and car salesman, all the while immersing himself in the history of the early West. His first novel, Carry the Wind, won the Medicine Pipe Bearer......more

Goodreads review by Steven on July 18, 2011

I have a real fondness for frontier literature and movies. James Fenimore Cooper, or Robert Redford's "Jeremiah Johnson", for instance. With that in mind, I can't believe it took me so long to discover Terry C. Johnston's Titus Bass books. This is a grand epic that begins with Josiah Paddock in St.......more

Goodreads review by Joe on June 09, 2023

First book in the series from one of my favorite authors. This is the first book published not the first book chronologically. I preferred the first three books in the series when the main character was by himself, not with a partner. I felt it slowed the book down and I honestly didn’t like the oth......more

Goodreads review by Megargee on October 18, 2013

A richly detailed book of the life of the mountain men trapping beaver in the Rockies. While I did not especially like the character of Scratch, I did find him interesting. So much so that I later checked out Dance on the Wind, the book that, although written later, is chronologically the first in......more

Goodreads review by Nelson on September 24, 2009

This book was amazing. Totally swept me away. Johnston does a wonderful job at pulling you right into the mountains of the western frontier. Whether Scratch and Josiah were sharing jokes around a warm fire at rendezvous or fighting a war party in Blackfoot country you always felt like you were right......more

Quotes

“Brutal violence, enduring love, and a passion for the mountains…a book worth reading.” Library Journal

“Slick with survival–and–gore heroics and thick with Northwest wilderness period detail (1820-40), this gutsy adventure–entertainment is also larded with just the right amounts of frontier sentiment.” Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Medicine Pipe Bearer Award
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