Introduction
Experience the untamed beauty of early America in Where the
Rivers Run North, a new historical novel by Sam Morton. Morton’s
extensively researched book—weaving fact, anecdote, and fiction—carries the
reader through four eras in the history of Absaraka, or what is now southern Montana and
northern Wyoming. From the days when Native American tribes still dominated the landscape
to the hardships of fledgling pioneer life to times of fast-paced modern development, Where
the Rivers Run North introduces a shifting cast of characters as intriguing as they
are diverse. One thread runs throughout—the figure of the horse, whether running wild
on the plains or competing on the racetrack.
In the style of Larry McMurtry, Larry Watson, and Louise Erdrich, Morton weaves a
spellbinding historical tale, packed with as much anecdotal and historical fact as it is
with intriguing, true-to-life characters. Readers will meet Crazy Horse, authentic
American cowboys, and twentieth-century entrepreneurs and horsemen as they each encounter
the hardships and rewards of life in the American West.
