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Blood to rubies : a novel / Deborah Hufford ; foreward by descendant of Chief Joseph, esteemed Nez Perce elder, Allen V. Pinkham, Sr.

ISBN: 9798888240724
ISBN: 9798888240748
Physical Description: xv, 395 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Virginia Beach, VA : Koehler Books, 2023.
Copyright: &copy;2023

Hufford, Deborah, (author.). Pinkham, Allen, (writer of foreward.).

Summary:

Blood to Rubies is the scorching saga of injustice, love, and redemption in the western wilderness. A young frontier photographer goes West to escape the Civil War draft and settles in the Bitterroot Mountains, ancestral home of the Nez Perce Indians. There he becomes obsessed with a young Irish pioneer woman he spies swimming nude in a mountain lake. He comes to admire the Nez Perce and photographs the young leader, Chief Joseph, and a Nez Perce woman warrior (based on a real historical person). Their stories tangle in a ruthless convergence of fates. As he chronicles Chief Joseph's desperate struggle to save his people and their harrowing 1,500-mile exodus to the Canadian border-the medicine line-to join Sitting Bull in freedom, he feels complicit in their demise.