Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men was stunningly portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Golden Globe Award-winning, and twelve-time Academy Award nominated film, The Revenant.
Written more than fifty years ago, HAWKS still rivets readers, and was recently on the NYTimes Bestseller list again. Besides Hugh Glass, as portrayed in The Revenant, historic characters’ explorations fill the pages. A few examples:
* 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.
Go on the adventure with these magnificent folks who refused to live by anyone’s rules or expectations!
Learning to Soar: The Memoir of a Spiritual Awakening
In these pages, Win Blevins tells a very personal story. It is a tale of starting out in darkness and finding a path to riding high on the winds of spirit.
As a young man, Win Blevins rejected what he was taught in Sunday school, the central part of his family’s life. After leaving home, his spirit felt lost in a wilderness of doubt and skepticism. At last he became fascinated with Crazy Horse, a Sioux chieftain who saw a better way: the path of the sweat lodge, the sacred pipe, and the vision quest. Win’s search led him to the friendship of a wise Shoshone man who showed him what doors Native American ceremonies could open.
In middle-age, Win felt free to throw skepticism and doubt to the winds. He felt free to embrace the Cherokee side of himself that his family left behind. Win took up the sacred pipe, went on a vision quest, and that quest changed his life forever. Following that first time, he went on twelve vision quests before his death.
This is a book for anyone who feels spiritually hungry. For anyone who is willing to go wherever their path may lead, in order to give their lives meaning. The single eye of the heart. With gratitude.
