The Deliverance

In this newest of the Barnaby Skye chronicles, Skye and his Crow Indian wife drift south to Mexican territory. Skye agrees to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman locate her two children, who were kidnapped by Ute Indians several years before and sold into bondage in Mexico.

In this newest of Richard Wheeler's Barnaby Skye chronicles, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy, now a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, collects his Crow Indian wife Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria" as he calls her) and drifts south to Mexican territory At Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, Skye agrees to help StandingAlone, a mysterious Cheyenne woman, locate her two children who werekidnapped by Ute Indians several years before and sold into bondage inMexico.This impossible, dangerous, and foolhardy mission takes the three to Santa Fe and Taos and into a strange association with an eccentric Texas adventurer, Colonel Childress, who agrees to help them for reasons no one can guess." Deliverance" is the 13th in a series of early American West frontiernovels featuring Barnaby Skye, the most beloved and enduring character inmodern Western fiction.