The Oracle Of The Montana Mountains
(2026)(The second book in the Ballad of a Westering Man series)
A novel by Bill Yenne
The second adventure in the new Western series from acclaimed author Bill Yenne!
If madness can be defined in an allegory, there are few allegories more apt than Gideon Safford’s blind obsession with crossing the Continental Divide on the cusp of a Montana winter. This westering man survives certain death in one blizzard only to find himself making a promise to brave further hardships— and bullets— to locate an enigmatic woman with eyes like a blizzard who has become an oracle.
The traveling Jesuit missionary who saves his life brings Safford to a Blackfeet camp on the Marias River. There, Safford hears the tale of a young woman who is believed by many to possess great, even magical, powers of insight. She was kidnapped and sold to people across the Divide, and her own people, especially her sister, want her back.
Because of her strange eyes, which once seen are never forgotten, this oracle has become a mysterious object of wonder, speculation and avarice on both sides of the Divide, a woman about whom people speak only in whispers.
Bill Yenne is the award winning author of more than three dozen nonfiction books on historical topics and a dozen novels, including two series of Westerns with Dusty Saddle. He grew up in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, where he spent a great deal of time on horseback in the rugged backcountry. He is an active member of Western Writers of America. The Wall Street Journal notes that he writes with ‘cinematic vividness.’
Genre: Western
If madness can be defined in an allegory, there are few allegories more apt than Gideon Safford’s blind obsession with crossing the Continental Divide on the cusp of a Montana winter. This westering man survives certain death in one blizzard only to find himself making a promise to brave further hardships— and bullets— to locate an enigmatic woman with eyes like a blizzard who has become an oracle.
The traveling Jesuit missionary who saves his life brings Safford to a Blackfeet camp on the Marias River. There, Safford hears the tale of a young woman who is believed by many to possess great, even magical, powers of insight. She was kidnapped and sold to people across the Divide, and her own people, especially her sister, want her back.
Because of her strange eyes, which once seen are never forgotten, this oracle has become a mysterious object of wonder, speculation and avarice on both sides of the Divide, a woman about whom people speak only in whispers.
Bill Yenne is the award winning author of more than three dozen nonfiction books on historical topics and a dozen novels, including two series of Westerns with Dusty Saddle. He grew up in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, where he spent a great deal of time on horseback in the rugged backcountry. He is an active member of Western Writers of America. The Wall Street Journal notes that he writes with ‘cinematic vividness.’
Genre: Western
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