Rivers Crossed

This book has action as it really happened—in a time unique in American history—in a place born of upheaval. The resources of a birthing nation and a political policy of manifest destiny” resulting in the Mexican-American war, as well as greed for the land across the western rivers, fosters an exodus of the white man into the land of the red man…. But at what cost? Two collision-bound cultures must meet in inevitable conflict, and in the middle of it all, Kensington, a Bostonian-turned-mountain man and his humorous Arapahoe companion must confront warring tribes, renegade bands and murdering whites. As the wagons roll west, not even Kensington’s friend, Jim Bridger, can save him from the greatest threat to his freedom—a one-hundred-ten-pound Canadian beauty named Claries.Gilliland, Walter is the author of 'Rivers Crossed ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781424151202 and ISBN 1424151201.