Signed by Author on the Title Page.
A companion novel to Soaring Eagle
Mid-grade Historical Fiction, Age 10 and up
The Fort was still quiet, but Julio's mind was not quiet at all. Thoughts and feelings and questions raced at each other, spun and collided - home, war, his Mexican family, his Cheyenne family, his American grandfather in Independence, maybe an unknown family in Pennsylvania. Where did he belong? Could he learn to live in an American house and wear a rope around his neck and eat with a fork? Or was his spirit too wild, too free, the way Bent said?
On the dangerous Santa Fe Trail in 1845, fifteen-year-old Julio Montoya is attacked by a grizzly, treated by a Cheyenne healer, left to die by Texas freebooters, captured by Pawnee... and protected by a powerful spirit.
Julio has left his family in Taos in search of his past. Will he find his answers in Missouri at the end of the Santa Fe Trail? Even if he survives the long and perilous journey, will he be too late?
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