Yellowstone Thunder - Softcover

McCarthy, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1463602472 ISBN 13: 9781463602475

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

YELLOWSTONE THUNDER is a grand historical novel about a young California woman and her Chumash Indian friend who flee for their lives having no idea that their fates will carry them all the way to what is today our magnificent Yellowstone National Park. With the help and protection of a mountain man named Hawk and a handsome fortune seeker named Quinn they will come to know and love the gentle Sheepeater Indians, the Nez Perce and fear the deadly Blackfeet who raid their wilderness paradise in search of food, horses and slave women. This is one of a series of National Park novels that multiple-award-winning author Gary McCarthy has researched and written putting the reader right into the heart of the creation of some of our most famous National Parks and whose titles are: YOSEMITE THUNDER, GRAND CANYON THUNDER, MESA VERDE THUNDER and RIVER THUNDER. If you like history interwoven with fascinating characters you will find this series very much to your liking.

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About the Author

Gary McCarthy has sold over three million books during his distinguished writing career. A horseman and hiker, he has traveled the West researching his many acclaimed novels and loves to skillfully interweave historical fact with fiction, always telling his readers what is real and what is not. McCarthy is the author of fifteen American historical and thirty-four western novels and is constantly on the lookout for new stories to tell. He has been a college teacher of creative writing and lives in Northern Arizona’s rugged high mountain and canyon country near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Gary McCarthy especially loved researching this big historical novel. As a boy, he spent many happy and memorable summer vacations with his family camping, hiking and horseback riding both in Yosemite Valley and up at Tuolumne Meadows. He has never forgotten Yosemite’s stunning waterfalls, grassy meadows and the spectacular evening “fire falls.”

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1463602472
• ISBN 13: 9781463602475
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248