Synopses & Reviews
In the mid-1840s, the trails west from the Missouri frontier were clogged with pioneers searching for a new life in a remote land they thought was another Eden.
In The Fields of Eden Richard S. Wheeler shows us a handful of these emigrants who arrived at the gates of Arcadia at a time when the British Hudson's Bay Company controlled the Oregon country and resisted every American effort to push the republics boundaries to the Pacific.
This is a story of people who fought to overcome their shattered dreams and made possible the settlement of Old Oregon.
Review
“One cannot avoid being caught like a fish on a line and drawn into his story. It is a gift [Wheeler] has.” —
Amarillo Sunday News-Globe “This is a fragment of history which has all the material for great fiction—greed, loyalty, treachery, generosity—and Richard Wheeler has the skill to make the most of it.” -The Dillon Tribune
“A kaleidoscope of fact and fiction that touches on some underexplored historical backwaters.” —Kirkus Reviews
“It has become the authors trademark to tell a vast historical drama through the eyes of multiple characters, and his skill at orchestrating massive movements is on display here.” —Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Richard S. Wheeler has written over fifty novels and several short stories. He has won four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of western literature.
He lives in the literary and film community of Livingston, Montana, and is married to Professor Sue Hart, of Montana State University-Billings. Before turning to fiction he was a newsman and book editor. He has raised horses and been a wrangler at an Arizona dude ranch.