Experience
the untamed beauty of early America in Where the Rivers
Run North, a new historical novel by Sam Morton. Morton’s
extensively researched book—weaving fact, anecdote, and fiction—carries
the reader through four eras in the history of Absaraka, or what
is now southern Montana and northern Wyoming. From the days when
Native American tribes still dominated the landscape to the hardships
of fledgling pioneer life to times of fast-paced modern development,
Where the Rivers Run North introduces a shifting cast of
characters as intriguing as they are diverse. One thread runs throughout—the
figure of the horse, whether running wild on the plains or competing
on the racetrack.
In the style of Larry McMurtry, Larry Watson, and Louise Erdrich,
Morton weaves a spellbinding historical tale, packed with as much
anecdotal and historical fact as it is with intriguing, true-to-life
characters. Readers will meet Crazy Horse, authentic American cowboys,
and twentieth-century entrepreneurs and horsemen as they each encounter
the hardships and rewards of life in the American West.
Experience
the untamed beauty of early America in Where the Rivers
Run North, a new historical novel by Sam Morton. Morton’s
extensively researched book—weaving fact, anecdote, and fiction—carries
the reader through four eras in the history of Absaraka, or what
is now southern Montana and northern Wyoming. From the days when
Native American tribes still dominated the landscape to the hardships
of fledgling pioneer life to times of fast-paced modern development,
Where the Rivers Run North introduces a shifting cast of
characters as intriguing as they are diverse. One thread runs throughout—the
figure of the horse, whether running wild on the plains or competing
on the racetrack.