The year is 1902. A young stock-handler named Fenton Pardee has
just survived the train wreck that almost destroyed William F.
Cody's Wild West show. Surveying the train's smoldering ruins--and
what is left of Cody's company of stunt-riders, trick-shooters, and
stage actors--Fenton realizes that turning the West into a circus
to thrill the world is no longer thrilling for him. Salvaging a
saddle horse and three pack mules, he heads back into the West,
seeking the reality of the Montana Rockies. "Blue Heaven" marks the
return of Fenton Pardee, veteran guide and packer, who figured so
memorably in "High Country," Willard Wyman's highly acclaimed first
novel. Now Wyman moves back in time, filling in the story of the
legendary packer. As he begins his westward journey, Fenton is not
nearly as sure of where he is going as of what he wants to leave.
Crossing the National Divide, he follows Indian trails and game
trails, learning the lay of the land as he moves into a wilderness
that comforts him as it draws him ever deeper into it. Stumbling
into the camp of Tommy Yellowtail, a Flathead Indian as determined
to remain in these mountains as Fenton is to embrace them, he
finally finds his way. Together the two men discover that showing
people what they want to preserve has its own way of keeping it
alive. The tale of Fenton and Tommy--and of the women they love,
one of whom is tragically taken from them--cuts through the romance
of the West to offer an earthier reality, even as twentieth-century
expansion and a looming world war threaten to take it all away.
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