Give Your Heart to the Hawks
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Give Your Heart to the Hawks

A Tribute to the Mountain Men

  1. 340 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Give Your Heart to the Hawks

A Tribute to the Mountain Men

About this book

The basis for the Golden Globe–winning and twelve-time Academy Award–nominated film The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Mountain man Hugh Glass's harrowing journey 300 miles to civilization after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead is just one of the incredible adventures Spur Award–winning author Win Blevins explores in the New York Times bestseller, Give Your Heart to the Hawks.

In addition to the captivating story of Hugh Glass, Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these dauntless "first Westerners" who explored the Great American West from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. Here, among many, are the enthralling stories of:

* John Colter, who, in 1808, naked and without weapons or food, escaped captivity by the Blackfeet and ran and walked 250 miles to Fort Lisa at the mouth of the Yellowstone River;

* Kit Carson, who ran away from home at age 17, became a legendary mountain man in his 20s and served as scout and guide for John C. Fremont's westward explorations of the 1840s;

* Jedediah Smith, a tall, gaunt, Bible-reading New Yorker whose trapping expeditions ranged from the Rockies to California and who was killed by Comanches on the Cimarron in 1831.

* And many more trailblazers who braved the untamed frontier . . .

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Tales of the Heart: An Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition
  7. Introduction
  8. Preface
  9. I The First Mountain Man
  10. II Mountain Skill, Mountain Luck
  11. III Falstaff’s Battalion
  12. IV Quest for Buenaventura
  13. V Starvin’ Times
  14. VI Rescue in Californy
  15. VII A Choice of Allegiance
  16. VIII War in the Mountains
  17. IX Invasion
  18. X Alpenglow
  19. APPENDIX A: Chronology of the Fur Trade
  20. APPENDIX B: Glossary
  21. Bibliography
  22. Also By Win Blevins
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Notes
  25. Index
  26. Copyright