Publisher's Synopsis
The crack of Arizona stagecoach driver Joe Adams' whip in 1859 and cheers after he tricked the Army to get the first train across the Colorado River in 1877 are bookend moments in The Trail through Mohawk. One hundred fifty years later, schoolteacher Rachel Adams discovers hidden journals and begins a personal odyssey transcribing the story of family members she never knew existed. Joe Adams, married to a Cocopah Indian, finds life-threatening peril on the trail a constant companion, including face-to-face encounters with escaped convicts and the legendary Apache war chief, Cochise. The Trail Through Mohawk is a ride on a Butterfield Overland stagecoach, a gallop with the Pony Express and a battle in the Arizona desert during the Civil War. Page after page bring first-hand accounts of life, death, hardship, and courage in frontier Arizona. Through it all, Rachel Adams realizes that life's questions today involve the same challenges her family faced as she struggles to keep the affections of Albert, the man of her dreams. The Trail through Mohawk is the first of three inspiring historical novels that bring real life people alive in a new and compelling way.
