Blood West — Saliee O'Brien

JAMES BLOOD HAD A DREAM OF FREEDOM…

Trapper, frontiersman, farmer on the Mississippi River, he set out in a world of earthquakes, flood, famine, hard luck and the blind fury of prejudice to tame the wilderness and to claim a piece of it for his own.

BLOOD WEST

A man -- and a novel -- as big, woolly and wild as the frontier of 200 years ago -- the saga of the resilient, restive James Blood, his journey on foot across the plains, his life among the Osage Indians, his exotic women and his desperate stand against an angry mob in a glorious and lonely moment that tested his courage…and his honor.