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Historical Fiction
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The Whaler's Forge
ISBN 978-0-87004-474-8
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Caxton Press
Christine Echeverria Bender
Over a century before Columbus will venture across the Atlantic Ocean, a storm-battered Basque whaling galleon drops anchor off the eastern coast in North America. In this savagely beautiful new land, harpooner Kepa de Mendieta becomes the victim of a terrible accident. When his whaling galleon returns to Spain he is left behind, seemingly forsaken. With winter approaching, Kepa struggles against the brutal forces of humanity and nature in a fight for survival as well as redemption.
Joining an archaeological team from the Smithsonian Institution in August of 2008, Christine helped uncover a 16th century Basque whaling site in Hare Harbour, Quebec at the edge of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Many ancient artifacts were found by the diggers on land as well as the dive team searching the depths of the chilly coastal water. This was the most recent of the research trips undertaken to enrich the authenticity of her new novel.
Historical Fiction.
8.75x5.75, Paperback, 200 pages
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$16.95
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Sails of Fortune
ISBN 0-87004-449-4
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Caxton Press
Christine Echeverria Bender
Sails of Fortune is a novel detailing the harrowing and heroic voyage of Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet as he explored regions previously unknown to Europeans.
Veteran novelist Christine Echeverria Bender’s painstaking research and vivid prose reveals the horrors and hardship endured by the sixteenth century Spanish, Portuguese and Basque explorers who left their homes in 1519 to sail into the history books.
Among the volunteers on the Magellan expedition was shipmaster Juan Sebastian de Elcano, for whom the voyage offered a chance to reclaim his stolen honor. Hopeful and determined as they set sail, Elcano could not foresee the twists of fate that would pit him against his commander in a struggle to save their threatened venture, or the heavy price the journey would demand from the men endeavoring to cross the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
Echeverria Bender tells the story of Elcano’s struggle to survive a voyage so far reaching that it forever altered man’s vision of the world.
Historical fiction.
6x9, Paperback, 400 pages, maps.
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Challenge the Wind
ISBN 0-87004-422-2
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Caxton Press
Christine Echeverria Bender
Experience the world of 1492 through the mind and heart of a young Basque explorer. Domingo Laca, born to a family of whalers in the town of Lequetio, hears the call of the sea and longs to sail to distant waters. He believes his dreams have been realized when he is invited to join Christopher Columbus on his voyage west. The voyage changes Domingo and many other sailors on the three ships forever. Historical fiction.
6x9, Paperback, 362 pages, maps.
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$16.95
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They Came to a Valley
0-87004-420-6
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Caxton Press
Bill Gulick
Spanning five momentous years, 1863 to 1868, They Came to a Valley is the story of the settlement of the Idaho Territory, a huge geographical region ravaged by hostile Indians, plagued by thieving roughnecks and exploited by scheming politicians and unept army officers. Bill Gulick tells the story of the rugged men and brave women who risked everything to carve a future from the wild mountains and deserts of the Pacific Northwest.
Winner of the Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award for Best Historical Novel.
Historical fiction.
6x9, Paperback, 432 pages.
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$17.95
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Mountain Man
ISBN 0-89301-251-3
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University of Idaho Press
Vardis Fisher
Vardis Fisher captured both the romantic idealism and harsh realism of the wilderness experience with this classic tale of the West (which served as the inspiration for the Sidney Pollack/Robert Redford film, Jeremiah Johnson).
Paper, 368 pages, 1 map.
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$9.95
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Six Decades Back
ISBN 0-89301-137-1
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University of Idaho Press
Originally published by The Caxton Printers
Charles S. Walgamott
Charles Shirley Walgamott arrived by stage at Rock Creek Station, Idaho Territory, in 1875. In an untamed land, far from his native Iowa, he survived illness, hardship, and lawlessness. Walgamott mined, trapped, ranched, and hunted, while living with settlers, Indians, and outlaws.
6x9, Paper, 384 pages, 7 photos
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$19.95
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The Moon-Eyed Appaloosa
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Caxton Press
Bill Gulick
Corporal Burke Langdon thought he was escaping from the doldrums of frontier army life when he was assigned to take six strange-looking speckled Nez Perce Indian horses from Fort Boise to Fort Walla Walla. Bill Gulick spins a rousing tale of treachery, violence and courage, set in the 1860s, on the dusty, sage-covered Snake River Plain.
Historical fiction.
5.5x8.5, Paperback, 224 pages.
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$12.95
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Do Them No Harm! Lewis & Clark Among the Nez Perce
0-87004-427-3
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Caxton Press
by Zoa L. Swayne
In autumn 1805, a group of ragged strangers staggered into a Nez Perce Indian camp on the Clearwater River in what is now northern Idaho. The natives discussed killing the starving newcomers and taking the wonderous treasures they carried in their packs. Instead, they heeded an old woman who said, "Do Them No Harm!" That decision marked the beginning of a unique friendship between the Nez Perce and the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Zoa Swayne spent years writing down the events of 1805-1806 as remembered by Nez Perce storytellers, then combined them with entries from the journals of the explorers to create a fascinating story about an alliance that changed American history.
6x9, 350 pages, Paper, illustrations.
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Wind Leaves No Shadow
ISBN 0-87004-083-9
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Caxton Press
Ruth Laughlin
At Santa Fe, the musty pomp of fading Spain mingled with the acrid smell and gusty language of buffalo hunters, gringo traders, gamblers, elegant caballeros, and crooked politicians plundering the new nation. It was a time when all lived dangerously, and Dona Tules Barcelo more dangerously than all. The story of this exciting historical figure is a vivid picture of life in the Southwest in the 1830s when all that territory belonged to Mexico.
Historical fiction.
6x9, Paperback, 361 pages, glossary.
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$14.95
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