Santa Fe Passage

Name: Santa Fe Passage
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Clay Fisher
ISBN: 9781470852429

Author: Clay Fisher

Narrator: John Lescault

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Western

Published: 04/02/2019

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Kirby Randolph was a tough mountain man. He had promised himself that he would get the wagon train to Santa Fe because Aurélie St. Clair was in one of the wagons. She was half Indian, the most beautiful and the toughest girl he had ever seen.This is the story of men and women who kept the Santa Fe Trail open in the 1880s, from Westport, Kansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

About Clay Fisher

Henry Wilson Allen (1912–1991), also known as Will Henry and Clay Fisher, was a prolific author of Western fiction. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he worked as a stable hand and gold miner before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote more than fifty novels, including eight that were made into feature films. He is a five-time recipient of the Golden Spur Award and a recipient of the Levi Strauss Award for lifetime achievement.

About John Lescault

Patrick Cullen (a.k.a. John Lescault), a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer

If you want a book that's politically correct, this isn't your read. If you're looking for something that reads like the old dime novels, this is it. A mountain man earns a place on a wagon train moving along the Santa Fe Trail just so he can be near the fiery slip of a girl who's struck his fancy.......more

Goodreads review by Rick

CHIRP AUDIOBOOK The storyline is about wagon train moving West from St. Louis to Santa Fe in the 1830’s and involves smuggling firearms to the Mexicans. The lead character in the scout who has to contend with the Comanche Indians that also want the rifles… There’s a lot of action, some romance and d......more

Goodreads review by D'Arcy

Fun audible while driving along the Santa Fe Trail.......more

Goodreads review by Steven

Typical Western with the exception the main character is a mountain man and there's lots of action but not much gunplay. I liked it, but it didn't offer much to remember.......more

Quotes

“[Fisher] is a consummate storyteller, but his finely chiseled prose also sings with a lyricism that is as haunting as it is rare. His stories not only ring true, but also pull the reader feet-first into worlds that have vanished.” Santa Fe Reporter, praise for the author

“While this does not have the practiced fluency of Haycox, there is a similar realism in the handling of a wagon train making its way down the Santa Fe trace. The hero is an unwashed mountain man, the heroine is a half breed, the mule skinners’ talk is unexpurgated and unasterisked, and the hardships of the trail are completely unvarnished. The whole dynamites itself out of the standardized field and formula.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)