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East and West from Texas

East and West from Texas

Summers, Sonia Jackson
Jackson, Robert Frederick, Jr.

Paperback

Series: A Winding Thread, Book 4

Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1519212283
ISBN13: 9781519212283
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Nov 11 2015
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This culminating novel in the four volume Sunny of the Old Southwest collection follows Virginian Aaron Jefferson and his Navajo wife, now residng in Texas and heirs to a big ranch, as they take a role in the Red River War, the last gasp of the Comanche Nation (the remants of Comancheria) and then return to each others homelands to visit. First, in Virgina and trapped by her snows, they see the first child born in the cabin of Aaron's birth. Decades later, they take all four children (spaced each a year apart and the youngest then nine) to the home of Sunny's Dine People (Navajo), Dinetah in the beautiful, austere, red, rocky deserts and canyons. There the youngsters learn of Mama's past. Staying for months, the family helps the people, who are still those years later healing and rebuilding from the Long Walk of the Navajo People, the years in internment in the concentration camp at Bosque Redondo, and the long walk back to their devastated homeland.

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