{"product_id":"the-purgatory-river-the-rivers-west-9780553567953","title":"The Purgatory River (The Rivers West)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaught 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67929530040373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0553567950","price":66.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780553567953.jpg?v=1794196745","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-purgatory-river-the-rivers-west-9780553567953","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}