Snowbound

Name: Snowbound
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
ISBN: 9781470356057

Author: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrator: Brian Hutchison, James Jenner, Robert Ian Mackenzie, Tom Stechschulte, Jim Colby, Celeste Ciulla, Scott Sowers, T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/09/2013

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

In this powerful biographical novel, Richard Wheeler-- winner of the Owen Wister Lifetime Achievement Award and five Spur Awards-- tells the amazing tale of the American explorer and hero, John Fremont, and his attempt to find a railway route to the west along the 38th parallel. Trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, Fremont must fight his way out. He battles the frigid elements in a harrowing journey over the backbone of the continent. In this tale of desperate danger and fierce courage, Wheeler presents the reader with a survival saga par excellence-- a struggle of man against man, man against nature, man against himself-- and a novel you will never forget.

About Richard S. Wheeler

Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of historical novels, biographical novels, and Westerns. He began his writing career at age fifty, and by seventy-five he had written more than sixty novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but he turned to fiction full time in 1987. Wheeler started by writing traditional Westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some under the pseudonym Axel Brand. He has won six Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Louis on November 14, 2019

An interesting historical novel undone by a faulty approach. John C. Fremont is one of those fascinating, contradictory characters in American history whose lives call out for fictionalization. Soldier, statesman, adventurer, rogue - which is he? Unfortunately, Wheeler leaves it up to us to decide,......more

Goodreads review by Judy on October 08, 2012

Loved his true story I was right there with them in the mountains ...........more

Goodreads review by Jeff on March 12, 2024

Snowbound, Richard S. Wheeler (western, historical fiction, survival) Jeff Book Review #303 "Snowbound" is an historical fiction written like a biographical account of John C Fremont's 4th expedition in 1848-1849 with journal entries from the participants. It won a Spur Award in 2010 and is a fun read......more

Goodreads review by Mary on February 17, 2018

I thought I would be reading about John Fremont as an experienced and adventurous explorer and I expected to be impressed and amazed at his accomplishments. I didn't know about his unique (in a negative way) personality and faults as a human being that would cause his management of his fourth expedi......more

Goodreads review by John on January 05, 2018

I'm sorry to be different than many of the others but I wasn't all that happy with the book. Granted their was a lot of stuff that made you really wonder if this was real or fiction and there were times when I nearly gave up on it since it seems like many of the 'situations' were repetitive but I di......more