The Adventure and Romance of the America her people her spirit and the West This is our storyUncompahgre-where water turns rock red is the third book of the bestselling Threads West An American Saga series recipient of twenty NationalInternational Awards--Best Historical Fiction Best Romance and Best Western Compared by reviewers authors and readers alike to Lonesome Dove Centennial and LAmour Called by some the xGone with the Wind of the Westx and applauded by others as xrings true and poignant as authentic and moving as Dances with WolvesxIn Uncompahgre the time nears when the first of the next generation of Threads West characters will be born of the brave men and courageous women who have come so far and risked all 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 Their lives shaken by events they could not foresee and convergence with souls they could never image they begin to build a nation thatxs essence is in transition They have neither country nor culture in common but their dreams and survival demand a tension filled emergence stitched by fate and history The Oglala Sioux family struggles to cope with the inevitable change casting shadows upon their lands culture and scared traditions The elderly slave couple and the renegade and his young traumatized captive introduced in Maps of Fate are bound ever more tightly to the arc of the storyxtheir tragedy and triumph-filed tales weaving into the fabric of a collective destiny the black-hearted captor unknowingly catapulted by his tortured past into possible redemption Mormons stream west in the Great Exodus escaping persecution and searching for Zion Driven north by the Texas Rangers an outlaw vaquero with royal blood quests for a new sense of self and place The touchstones of the past are the guideposts to the future Uncompahgre-where water turns rock red is the continuation of this tale of America her people and the Westxnew lineages join the many threads of uncommon cultures differing origins and competing ambitions that entwine into the American spirit Lives and generations are woven on the loom of history propelled by fate and freedom to form the tapestry that becomes the whole cloth of the nation It is uniquely American this meld of the mosaicYou 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 usThis is not only their story It is our storyIt is Threads West An American SagaIn Book Four Moccasin Tracks releasing in the fires of future deadly tumult between the states has begun to sweep west The Threads West characters who have journeyed so far race against an early foreboding winter to establish their homestead some preoccupied with the serious complications of their pregnancies others compelled to follow the call of a separate path but all united to fend off ever-present danger The xresolutionx of the xIndian Problemx is evolving It will leave families and hearts broken forever staining the pages of American historyThe decades of the Maps of Fate era novels of Threads West book series become the crucible of the souls of generations the building of the heart of the nation the destiny of a people and the relentless energy and beauty of the western landscape This is the ongoing story of us.
