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Winds of Change
by
Gwyn Ramsey
After struggling through the throes of being kidnapped by Indians and traded for goods to the Arapahos, Sarah Anderson proves herself worthy of the Indian name, Vision Seeker, becomes the wife to Running Swift and the mother to Little Feather.
Sarah settles into the comfortable daily routines of Indian wife and mother until her life is again changed when her husband is killed on a wagon raid. The Army charges into the village to arrest the warring warriors only to find Sarah living among the natives.
Rescued and returned to Fort Laramie, Sarah must now face the difficult task of transitioning back into the white world with an Indian child, a soiled dove and shunned by the white populace. At the fort, her path crosses that of Patrick O’Brien whom she once loved. Confused and frightened, her spirit is lifted when she remembers that in her parfleche is the grass cross Patrick gave her several years ago and his promise to find her.
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Winds of Change brings alive the West before the Civil War, moving from bison hooves shaking the earth and traditional, horse-rich Arapaho villages to Army forts with their rigid society and trappers' rough encampments in the Cascade Mountains, and finally to the wind-blasted prairie of Kansas Territory, where farmers begin to slice into the black prairie sod. Although rich in historical detail, this saga of a family broken and re-formed is timeless, a journey through the lives of ordinary people who must come to terms with who they are in order to walk the path they are given with love.
--Susan J. Tweit, author of Walking Nature Home: A Life's Journey, forthcoming from Univ. of Texas Press
With an easy, unpretentious writing style, Gwyn Ramsey keeps her novel moving at a brisk space. WINDS OF CHANGE blends the best elements of historical, romance and Western fiction, and reminds us of why Americans like to read a good, strong story about our country.
-- Johnny D. Boggs, Three-time Spur Award-winning author of Camp Ford and Northfield, Dorchester Publishing Co, Inc.
A full-bodied saga about the adventures of a frontier family, their friends and their enemies in the Indian-war years just before the Civil War.
--Elmer Kelton, Hard Trail to Follow, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
The characters in Winds of Change are so real that it is evident Gwyn Ramsey did in-depth research. The way she weaves the different character's lives together is intriguing and exciting, and kept me wanting more. The incite into the lives of the American Indians and how they survived off the land is extremely vivid. These native people had so many good qualities but the violence among the different tribes is an eye opener. By our standards, even in that time, they lived a very hard life even before the Whites encroached upon them. This story is a fascinating read.
--Martha Kowalski, Reader
Gwyn Ramsey's series about the American West features well-developed characters, well-researched history, and well-crafted stories. As you read her novels, step back in time and enjoy the ride!
-- Joyce B. Lohse, award-winning author, "Now You Know Bios"
"In this historical family saga, WINDS OF CHANGE, Ms. Ramsey has captured the human spirit and the human heart."
-- Loretta C. Rogers, Author of ISABELLE AND THE OUTLAW, The Wild Rose Press
