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Spanish Bit Saga, Volume Three
2022
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Don Coldsmith, America's premier novelist of the North American Frontier delivers a revamped collection of Native American history. The Elk-Dog People have two new members, former soldiers in the French Army. Fully assimilated into the tribe, they travel to Santa Fe to help the group trade pelts. But soon trouble starts, and the new tribesmen must defend their people. Jean Cartier, once a French explorer, is now Woodchuck, proud warrior of the Elk-Dog People, on a mission to introduce his son, Red Feather, to the crucial business of trading. To exchange furs for Spanish weapons of steel, father and son journey through hostile territory. These are evil times for the people of the pueblo. For Red Feather and the Elk-Dog People, who are on their way to Santa Fe with sixteen pack horses loaded down with prime furs for trade, the trail will end in unexpected violence. “Coldsmith is a literary talent with a great imagination.” – Reader Spanish Bit Saga Volume Three includes: The Medicine Knife, Flower in the Mountains, Trail from Taos, Song of the Rock and Fort De Chastaigne.

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Don Coldsmith
Don Coldsmith
Author · 40 books
Don Coldsmith was an American author of primarily Western fiction. A past president of Western Writers of America, Coldsmith wrote more than 40 books, as well as and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. His “Spanish Bit Saga,” a series of related novels, helped to re-define the Western novel by adopting the point of view of the Native Americans, rather than the European immigrants.
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