Blood to Rubies
(eBook)

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    [synopsis] => "Rhapsodic and sensuous." "Savage and tender." Blood to Rubies is the scorching saga of injustice, love, and redemption in the western wilderness. A young frontier photographer goes West to escape the Civil War draft and settles in the Bitterroot Mountains, ancestral home of the Nez Perce Indians. There he becomes obsessed with a young Irish pioneer woman he spies swimming nude in a mountain lake. He comes to admire the Nez Perce and photographs the young leader, Chief Joseph, and a Nez Perce woman warrior (based on a real historical person). Their stories tangle in a ruthless convergence of fates. As he chronicles Chief Joseph's desperate struggle to save his people and their harrowing 1,500-mile exodus to the Canadian border-the medicine line-to join Sitting Bull in freedom, he feels complicit in their demise. Blood to Rubies has already garnered early praise from many New York Times bestselling authors, calling the book "brilliant," "heartbreakingly beautiful," "unforgettable," "gritty and lush," "a masterpiece."

The FOREWORD is written by a descendant of Chief Joseph and former Chair and Chieftain of the Nez Perce Tribe, Allen V. Pinkham, Sr. Allen also served as Founding Board Member of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Other leading Nez Perce elders have endorsed Blood to Rubies, as well.

A portion of Blood to Rubies' sales goes to the Chief Joseph Foundation in Idaho for their amazing Mounted Scholars Program, mentoring Nez Perce youth to learn about their tribal culture and horse legacy, as well as empowering them to become first-generation college and trade school students. The Chief Joseph Foundation also sponsors Nez Perce youth to ride the annual Chief Joseph Ride and provides them with Nez Perce-bred Appaloosas for the trek so they can learn about the heroic and historic struggle of their people to remain free. Many of their ancestors fought and died along the trail, so the experience is profound and life-changing for them. Blood to Rubies recounts this amazing saga.
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