Purgatory River (Rivers West) - Softcover

Roderus, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553567950 ISBN 13: 9780553567953

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997

Synopsis

Fleeing his old life in St. Louis, Aaron Bent follows what would become the Sante Fe Trail, falling in with a brother and sister duo escaping their own past, and becomes part of small settlement hoping to re-shape his life, if he can stay alive long enough. Original.

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From the Inside Flap

flagrant indiscretion with his employer's daughter and pursued by some rather angry family members, likable and vibrant Aaron Bent flees to St. Louis and the frontier beyond. Forced, as a bond servant, to join a wagon convoy traveling what would become the Santa Fe Trail, Aaron encounters Talks-to-Ghosts. At a place once known to Talks-to-Ghosts' people as Horse Camp, Aaron escapes the convoy and falls in with Herman and Elena Montoya, a brother and sister fleeing their own past. As part of a small settlement party sent to expand the territorial claims of Mexico they hoped to shape a new life in the basin of the Purgatory River. But, like so much of our frontier history, emotions and misunderstandings will rule the day. And a climactic conflagration will threaten to destroy all who live in this place once known as Horse Camp.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553567950
• ISBN 13: 9780553567953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 265