Bøger af Patricia Stinson

In the Wyoming Territory in the 1800's there was little law. People took what they wanted. Lynchings, called Texas Cakewalk, happened. This is a true account of the motives and aftermath of the lynchings. What were the motives of six men to lynch people? Did they get away with it?Texas Cakewalk is about true and infamous lynchings. The story is of eight people from different backgrounds with different ambitions and attitudes. The eight characters clash tragically in 1848 in the Prairie of Wyoming Territory.

In 1871, Doctor Edmund Proft from Connecticut finds life in the New Mexico territory much harsher and demanding than he realized. He faces gunfights, robbery, a tornado, ignorance, a whiskey distilling twin brother who uses a gun or his fist to get what he wants. Added to the difficulty of living in the West, Doctor Proft must contend with prejudices, including his own.

A pre-Civil War fair-skinned slave girl is pregnant and her one desire is to have her baby born in free territory. Her desire leads to deceptions, extreme hardships, death, and murder for three generations.