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Winfred Blevins

Win Blevins (born October 21, 1938) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction. He has written many books about the western mountain trappers, and is known for his "mastery of western lore." His notable works include Stone Song, So Wild a Dream, and Dictionary of the American West. According to WorldCat, the Dictionary of the American West is held in 728 libraries. Blevins has won numerous awards, including being named winner of the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement in writing literature of the West, being selected for the Western Writers Hall of Fame, being twice named 'Writer of the Year' by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and winning two Spur Awards for Novel of the West. source

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Born 21 October 1938

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  • Cover of: Stone song: a novel of the life of Crazy Horse

    Cover of edition stonesonglalegen0000blev Cover of edition stonesongnovelof0000blev Cover of edition stonesong00winb First published in 1995 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: Give your heart to the hawks: a tribute to the mountain men

    First published in 1973 — 8 editions
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    First published in 1854 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Heaven Is a Long Way Off: A Novel of the Mountain Men (Rendezvous)

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  • Cover of: Beauty for Ashes (Rendezvous)

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  • Cover of: Dictionary of the American West: over 5,000 terms and expressions from Aarigaa! to Zopilote

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  • Cover of: Charbonneau, man of two dreams: a novel

    First published in 1975 — 4 editions
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    First published in 1992 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Beauty for Ashes and Heaven Is a Long Way Off: Two Complete Novels

    First published in 2015 — 2 editions
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    First published in 2016 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The Yellowstone: River's West, Book 1 (Rivers West, Book 1)

    First published in 1988 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The Wordsworth Dictionary of the American West (Wordsworth Collection)

    First published in 1995 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: POWDER RIVER, THE (Rivers West, No 4)

    First published in 1990 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: A Long and Winding Road (Rendezvous)

    First published in 2007 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: So wild a dream

    First published in 2003 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1999 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

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Born 21 October 1938

Subjects

Fiction, Fiction, westerns, Frontier and pioneer life, Explorers, History, Fur trade, Indians of North America, Trappers, Indians of north america, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Navajo Indians, Pioneers, Discoveries in geography, Fiction, general, Fur trade in fiction, Mountain life, Mountain life in fiction, Rocky Mountains in fiction, Rocky mountains, fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Sam Morgan (Fictitious character), Trappers in fiction, West (u.s.), fiction, American bison, Americanisms

Places

West (U.S.), California, Rocky Mountains, New Southwest, Utah, Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, Pacific States, San Francisco, Yellowstone National Park

People

Jedediah Strong Smith (1799-1831), Crazy Horse (ca. 1842-1877), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Henry Fonda (1905-1982), Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau (1805-1866), Linda Darnell (1921-1965), Richard Francis Burton Sir (1821-1890), Sacagawea, Toussaint Charbonneau (ca. 1758-ca. 1839)

Time

To 1848, To 1846, 19th century

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  • Win Blevins

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