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The Shining Mountains

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The Shining Mountains

By: Alix Christie
Narrated by: Kate Zane
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The year is 1838. A young Scotsman forced from his homeland arrives at Hudson's Bay. Angus McDonald is contracted to British masters to trade for fur. But the world he discovers is beyond even a Highlander's wildest imaginings: raging rivers, buffalo hunts, and the powerful daughter of an ancient and magnificent people. In Catherine Baptiste, kin to Nez Perce chiefs, Angus recognizes a kindred spirit. The Rocky Mountain West in which they meet will soon be torn apart by competing claims: between British fur traders, American settlers, and the Native peoples who have lived for millennia in the valleys and plateaus of the Shining Mountains' western slopes.

In this epic family saga, the real history of the American West is revealed in all its terror, beauty, and complexity. The Shining Mountains brilliantly limns a world now long forgotten: of blended cultures seeking allies, trading furs for guns and steel, and a way of life in collision with westward colonial expansion.

©2023 Alix Christie (P)2023 Tantor Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Highlander Native American Old West Wild West
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A powerful story, brilliantly told. History is brought to life through the eyes of Angus MacDonald and his descendants. Angus arrives from Scotland by chance events, and through his eyes and the eyes of his descendants we are told the real story, and the real tragedy, of 'How The West Was Won'. Angus works as a fur trapper, and it's interesting to see how Europeans came at first as fur trappers, and later as gold miners, the differences between these types of 'pioneers' and how they devastated the land, the wild animals and the people who had lived there in harmony with nature for centuries.

Angus is uniquely positioned to tell this story because he marries an indigenous woman, and his life is very much interwoven with the lives of the First Nation people. He uses his connections as a white European to try to champion the cause of the indigenous people, to protect and preserve some of their land, but as history has told us, all largely to no avail.
A fascinating story on every level.

Wonderfully told story of the European colonisation of North America.

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