Publisher's Synopsis
You will find West Of Eden to be an action filled tale with no dead spots to be plowed through. It takes place in the latter decades of the nineteenth century and continues through the beginning decades of the twentieth century. Many of the incidents and the manner in which our pioneer ancestors lived and conducted their daily lives in this story are based on tales handed down from generation to generation in my family. The four love stories add spice and entail the manner in which pioneer people handled affairs of the heart.The families of four ranches are faced with a mysterious rustling of their cattle in a manner that makes no sense. Over a period of time, every ranch, even though they are many miles apart, come to know that each is losing cattle. Working together, the owners and their cowhands try to figure out the real reason for the senseless rustling activities. At the same time in the Ute Indian village of Chief Red Feather, their Shaman has spoken to the Wolf Spirit at the Sacred Circle high in the mountains and is told that bad white men and members of the local Blackfeet Indian tribe are working together to bring great trouble to both the Utes and to the white people. The Wolf Spirit does not know the exact plans of the white men and Blackfeet but advises the Shaman to work with the white people or great harm will come to both peoples.While the trouble is brewing, Raymond and Harry Crawford are planning to start a cattle ranch west of the C bar C ranch and are beginning their preparations to settle on lands in the Blue Mountains. They travel to Texas to locate a large herd of unbranded maverick cattle that they can round up and drive to their new ranch lands. Having locatedthe cattle, they prepare corrals for use next summer when they will return to Texas for the roundup and long cattle drive to Montana. How they survive a terrible Montana winter in the wilderness without a house and very little money is a testimony of their courag
