{"product_id":"moccasin-track-threads-west-an-american-saga-book-4-paperback","title":"Moccasin Track: (Threads West, an American Saga Book 4) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eReid Lance Rosenthal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Adventure and Romance of America, her people, her spirit and the West.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFourth novel of the sweeping of \u003ci\u003eThreads West, An American Saga\u003c\/i\u003e epic saga\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003ecompared by reviewers, authors and readers to \u003ci\u003eLonesome Dove, Centennial\u003c\/i\u003e, and Louis L'Amour (with steam). Called by some reviewers, the \"\u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e of the West,\" and \"the \u003ci\u003eSacketts \u003c\/i\u003eon steroids.\" Applauded by others as, \"rings true and poignant, as authentic and moving as \u003ci\u003eDances with Wolves\"\u003c\/i\u003e. This multiple #1 bestselling series--winner of thirty-seven National Awards, (including Best Historical Fiction, Best Multi-Cultural, Best Romance, and Best Western)--bursts with the adventure, romance and promise of historical America set in the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe epic saga of \u003ci\u003eThreads West\u003c\/i\u003e begins in 1854 with Book One. We meet the first of five richly textured, complex generations of unforgettable characters. The separate lives of these driven men and independent women are drawn to a common destiny that beckons seductively from the wild and remote flanks of the American West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Book Two, \u003ci\u003eMaps of Fate, \u003c\/i\u003e they are swept into the dangerous currents of the far-distant frontier by the mysterious rivers of fate, the power of the land and the American spirit. Secret maps, hidden ambitions, and magnetic attractions inherent in lives forged by the fires of love and loss, hope and sorrow, life and death, shape their futures and the destinies of their lineage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Book Three, \u003ci\u003eUncompahgre, \u003c\/i\u003e the men and women of the saga having reached their initial destination: pre-Denver, Cherry Creek, are each faced with life altering decisions. Some must decide to pursue or abandon torrid love affairs that have flowered on the dangerous journey from Europe and across America. An aristocratic vaquero chased north by the Texas Rangers catapults into the tale. The next generation of Threads West characters will soon be born in the wilderness. The elderly slave couple, the Oglala Sioux and Mountain Ute families, and the dark hearted renegade-- with his young, traumatized captive introduced in \u003ci\u003eMaps of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e--are bound ever more tightly to the arc of the tale-- their tragedy and triumph-filled tales weaving into the cloth of a collective destiny. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMoccasin Track\u003c\/i\u003e, Book Four, the brave, passion-filled characters of \u003ci\u003eUncompahgre\u003c\/i\u003e struggle in this unknown wilderness, racing against an early, foreboding winter to establish their homestead, some preoccupied with serious pre-birth complications of the next generation of \u003ci\u003eThreads West \u003c\/i\u003echaracters, other's compelled by an inner sense to blaze a separate trail, but all united to fend off ever-present dangers. The different personalities of their surviving offspring begin to manifest, some in disturbing ways. The Sioux family, bewildered by the increasing attack on their culture, is swept unknowingly into the tumultuous vortex of momentous changes shaping the United States and the West as the tidal wave of greed and intolerance inundates their ancestral territory. The Ute Chief makes a decision affecting generations, but his wife faces a fateful dilemma. Land, love, gold, tradition and the burden of family responsibility shape these characters of divergent origin as they love and struggle in the beautifully vibrant but unforgiving landscape of the West. The personal conflicts inherent to these characters of uncommon cultures, differing origins and competing ambitions are exacerbated by a nation in transition, the precipice of Civil War, and both deep bonds and lethal enmities with Native Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou will recognize the characters who live in these pages. They are the ancestors of your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, and your family. They are you. They are us. We are all Americans.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not only their story. It is \u003ci\u003eour \u003c\/i\u003estory.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is \u003ci\u003eThreads West, An American Saga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReid is fourth generation land and cattle, a rancher, and a multiple #1 bestselling author whose works have been honored with twenty national awards. His cowboy heart and poet's pen capture the spirit of the western landscape and its influence on generations of its settlers. His long-standing devotion to wild and remote places and to the people--both past and present--who leave their legend and footprint upon America and the American West, is the inspiration and descriptive underpinning of all of his writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If your mind and spirit are seduced by images of windswept ridge tops, flutters of aspen leaves caressed by a canyon breeze and the crimson tendrils of dying sun...if your fingers feel the silken pulse of a lover and your lips taste the deep kisses of building desire...if nostrils flare with the conjured scents of gunpowder and perfume, sage brush and pine, and your ears delight in the murmur of river current...if your heart pounds at the clash of good and evil and with each twist and turn of interwoven lives you feel a primal throb, then I have accomplished my mission.\" Reid Lance Rosenthal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassion fuels each thrilling, history, action and romance-packed novel in this widely acclaimed five-generation epic series of the historical and contemporary American west. Threads West has been compared to L'Amour, and Centennial, and some call the series, the \"\u003ci\u003eGone With The Wind\u003c\/i\u003e of the West.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Benjamin Franklin Award (2020)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151493599367,"sku":"9780982157640","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2f71b4d47515db92dd35fec569311f49.webp?v=1733207460","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/moccasin-track-threads-west-an-american-saga-book-4-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}