Content: western

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This is in the Western genre. While doing research for my other western novel I made an interesting discovery: there were a moderate number of families who went west during the 1849 California Gold Rush with no intention of staying in California. There reasons for doing this varied, but the one constent was they all considered the dangerous journey to be a long vacation or an extended camping trip. The Cook family is one of these families. The Cook family is fictional however the events they face are factual and were found in various emigrant diaries. I have intentionally kept them naive of both the dangers and the distance involved. However, they will have a reality check when they are out on the trail, far too late to head back home. This is a work in progess and is only the first draft. The novel is not complete. I have completed fourteen chapters. Each chapter starts of with a fictious diary entry from the main charcter, Nadine Cook. I should also mention that besides being in the western genre, it is also a wagon train and a gold rush novel set in 1849.

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With apologies to all the fine poets on this site. I can't write poetry, but this morning I finally snapped and this jumped into my head. This is the reason I never have time to do my writing.

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A beautiful, young Cheyenne girl, shunned by her own people and the whites who raised her, falls in with a band of outlaws. Luke Winslow loves her deeply, and scours the west to find the girl who must stay one step ahead of the law.

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