This was a great read.
A story of some indian traders and their will to survive.
From the back of the book: The people of the pueblo want only to be left in peace, but they are trapped between a band of militant young warriors and the Spanish Hairfaces, who have already shed first blook...
Trail From Taos
These are evil times for the people of the pueblo. The Spanish padres are trying to force them to abandon their spirit ways. And a powerful leader named Pope' is stirring up the young warriors to resist. For Red Feather and the Elk-Dog People, who are on their way to Santa Fe with sixteen pack horses loaded down with prime furs for trade, the trail will end in unexpected violence. Red Feather and his son White Fox will be seized and thrown into a Spanish Prison. And soon, the safety and the very survival of his clan and the people of the pueblo will hang on Red Feather's ability to escape.
The Spanish Bit Saga
Set in the New World of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Don Coldsmith's acclaimed novels re-create a time, a place, and a people that have been nearly lost to history. In The Spanish Bit Saga we see history in the making through the eyes of those proud Native Americans who lived it.
From the back of the book: The people of the pueblo want only to be left in peace, but they are trapped between a band of militant young warriors and the Spanish Hairfaces, who have already shed first blook...
Trail From Taos
These are evil times for the people of the pueblo. The Spanish padres are trying to force them to abandon their spirit ways. And a powerful leader named Pope' is stirring up the young warriors to resist. For Red Feather and the Elk-Dog People, who are on their way to Santa Fe with sixteen pack horses loaded down with prime furs for trade, the trail will end in unexpected violence. Red Feather and his son White Fox will be seized and thrown into a Spanish Prison. And soon, the safety and the very survival of his clan and the people of the pueblo will hang on Red Feather's ability to escape.
The Spanish Bit Saga
Set in the New World of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Don Coldsmith's acclaimed novels re-create a time, a place, and a people that have been nearly lost to history. In The Spanish Bit Saga we see history in the making through the eyes of those proud Native Americans who lived it.
