Give Your Heart to the Hawks
A Tribute to the Mountain Men
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3.8 • 18 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Stunningly portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Golden Globe Award-winning and twelve-time Academy Award nominated film The Revenant.
Mountain man Hugh Glass’s harrowing journey 300 miles to civilization after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead is just one of the incredible adventures Spur Award Winning author Win Blevins explores in the New York Times bestseller, Give Your Heart to the Hawks.
In addition to the captivating story of Hugh Glass, Win Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these dauntless "first Westerners" who explored the Great American West from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. Here, among many, are the enthralling stories of:
* John Colter, who, in 1808, naked and without weapons or food, escaped captivity by the Blackfeet and ran and walked 250 miles to Fort Lisa at the mouth of the Yellowstone River;
* Kit Carson, who ran away from home at age 17, became a legendary mountain man in his 20s and served as scout and guide for John C. Fremont's westward explorations of the 1840s;
* Jedediah Smith, a tall, gaunt, Bible-reading New Yorker whose trapping expeditions ranged from the Rockies to California and who was killed by Comanches on the Cimarron in 1831.
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Customer Reviews
An entertaining and informative book
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge of the West back before the frontier was closed. For example, it covers in detail such mountain men as Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger, men I had heard of but knew little about, as well as a variety of colorful characters, heroes and scoundrels. Their stories are told in the mountain vernacular, not so much to be pretentious as out of affection. The Indians too are touched on with care and respect. The book does not claim to be unbiased. As Blevins himself says,
“This book...tells the story of the mountain men from their own perspective and not from some independent, “objective” pedestal of judgment. To try to evaluate the way the mountain men and Indians treated each other “objectively,” could only mean to evaluate it from a perspective that participates in the cultural bias of neither. Such a perspective may some day be formulated. But it seems to me that we speak meaningfully only when we look at the encounter from the well-meaning, deep biases of both sides.”
A good read! I was sorry when it ended.
Boring, rambling
Poorly written, boring. It took a lot to make a great subject this boring, but the author managed to do it.