The Smoky Hill

Name: The Smoky Hill
Brand: Books In Motion
Availability: InStock
Author: Don Coldsmith
ISBN: 9781605489988

Author: Don Coldsmith

Series: Rivers West #2

Narrator: Maynard Villers

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Books In Motion

Published: 01/15/2012

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Through the rolling grasslands of Kansas runs the Smoky Hill River, a rich source of opportunity for those bold enough to risk the dream-killing territory. For Gabe, mountain-man and scout, the river means freedom and a chance to map unexplored territory

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alton on May 09, 2018

Three novellas involving the Booths: Gabriel explores the headwaters of the Smoky with the Fremont expedition in 1844; Lemuel wants to prospect for gold in Colorado but ends up driving a stage and marrying an Indian girl in 1860; Jesse survives an Indian ambush in 1876 and helps a captive white girl......more

Goodreads review by Hazel Hart on August 27, 2015

I read The Smoky Hill because of the setting and time period. The book is divided into three parts and follows the adventures of four members of the same family. The first part is interesting for the history and setting, but the story line of the main character, Gabe, doesn’t go much beyond being a......more

Goodreads review by DocHolidavid on November 21, 2021

Pretty fair book about my homeland. Narrator was fair to middlin'.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on February 08, 2016

I enjoyed this, but It didn't move me. It was just OK.......more