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Author Wheeler, Richard S.

Title The first dance : a Barnaby Skye novel / Richard S. Wheeler.

Publication Info. New York : Forge, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F WHEELER    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION WHEELER c.3  Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Storage  WESTERN WHEELER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-WHEELER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC WHEELER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-WHEELER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 349 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Skye's West
Wheeler, Richard S. Skye's West.
Note "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Summary Miles City, Montana. 1885. Barnaby Skye's mixed-blood son, Dirk, has just married a beautiful Metis girl, Therese. But Dirk's position as a civilian translator for the U.S. army threatens to shatter their union. Montana ranchers wrestling with livestock theft and the incursion of settlers into their range have persuaded the army to send the Metis people back to Canada. The military enlists Dirk to translate between the two sides in the brutal campaign. Unable to reconcile her love for Dirk with the pain he is inflicting on her people, Therese flees on their wedding night. Heartbroken, Dirk rides off with the army.Therese has a powerful vision. She is inspired to build a church that will be a gathering place for her people and a symbol of their resistance to deportation.The suffering refugees--driven into the wilderness by Yankee soldiers and cruel ranch vigilante gangs--find a friend in Dirk and an inspiration in Therese. In their common cause, the lovers are reunited .
Subject Skye, Barnaby (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Montana -- Fiction.
Ranchers -- Montana -- Fiction.
Métis women -- Fiction.
Métis -- Fiction.
Métis -- Relocation -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780765322029
0765322021
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