The Purgatory River (The Rivers West)

About this book

Caught in a flagrant indiscretion with his employers 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.