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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: Heaven Is a Long Way Off: A Novel of the Mountain Men (Rendezvous)

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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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