Uncompahgre: Where Water Turns Rock Red (Threads West, an American Saga Book 3), Paperback

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The Adventure and Romance of the America, her people, her spirit, and the West. This is ""our"" story.""Uncompahgre-where water turns rock red"" is the third book of the #1 bestselling, ""Threads West, An American Saga"" series, recipient of twenty National Awards--Best Historical Fiction, Best Romance and Best Western Compared by reviewers, authors and readers alike to ""Lonesome Dove, Centennial,"" and L'Amour. Called by some the ""Gone with the Wind"" of the West,"" and applauded by others as ""rings true and poignant, as authentic and moving as ""Dances with Wolves."" In ""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 that's 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 story--their 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 sel