Howdy! Welcome to another terrific Tuesday! Hope y’all are doing well!
Have just released a new Young Adult, Novella #2 in the Untamed Frontier Series. The title of the book is To Tame a Wild Horse. It’s written under one of my pen names, Genny Cothern.
First let me tell you a little about the series and then the story of book #2. The series is about two teenagers from completely different cultures, Good Eagle and Miss Starling. When they first meet, he is eighteen and she is sixteen and they spark off of one another from the start. But gradually, they become friends, though it’s a long, hard road.
Book #2 takes place about a year later and together they herd the horses for the Fort (where Starling’s uncle is the Factor), they hunt for the fort and they roam the prairies when they can. They’ve become good friends. And so, with this in mind, this is the back blurb for the book:
TO TAME A WILD HORSE
Montana, 1848
Can Friends Ever Fall In Love?
I have only been at Fort Lewis for a year, but my friendship with Good Eagle has blossomed and has brought me a kind of happiness like nothing I have ever known. Daily I ride over the prairies and mountains with Good Eagle, and, I’ve now learned to herd horses, to hunt wild game and to aim at a target and bring it down. But, when a grizzly threatens both Good Eagle and me, and, when Good Eagle commands me to hide from it while he faces the grizzly alone, I refuse. Desert my best friend? Never.
But, after we rescue some stolen horses, I begin to believe my friendship with Good Eagle might have been love from the very start.
This is not good. Not only has Good Eagle given my Uncle Jed a promise to treat me like an almost-sister, we share nothing in common except our friendship. Nothing. And, when I slyly bring up the subject of love, Good Eagle reminds me of his vow to my uncle.
And yet, when we track and bring down the wild, black stallion we are seeking, Good Eagle gives me an unexpected gift.
Is falling in love really impossible, or are we merely too young to know our own hearts?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F89HQKVZ?tag=pettpist-20
This fictional story is inspired by the true adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan, as written by James Willard Schultz from Thomas Fox’s handwritten legacy — and from Thomas relating the adventures of he and Pitamakan, while sitting around an evening’s cozy fire.
Pitamakan went on to become a great chief, but a quick search doesn’t pull up many results about him because Pitamakan means Running Eagle in Blackfeet and there was another Running Eagle, a girl warrior, and most accounts I’ve been able to find about Pitamakan are about the girl warrior, who, by the way had many adventures, as well, as told by her lifetime friend, Ap’ah, who was born on the same day as she.
Must admit I love telling these stories about friendship and honor, and about two people from completely opposing cultures who somehow manage to become friends. And, I love learning about a history I had no knowledge of prior to doing this research.
Now, I’ll be giving away this new story to four (4) bloggers today. So come on in and leave a comment. And, May your week be filled with happiness and love!