The Holts - An American Dynasty #1- Oregon Legacy

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1993. First Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Larkin, Bob - Cover Art. 352 Pages. No marks or stamps to this book. When covered wagons rolled along the Oregon Trail, crossed the Rockies, and brought the first settlers to the magnificent American West, one man became a legend in his own time. He was wagon master Whip Holt, and his blood ran hot with the kind of courage needed to tame a wild land. His indomitable spirit has been inherited, along with his vision of a proud American West, by his descendants in a family so extraordinary, so destined for greatness, that the whole world will know their names: The Holts 1887. The full fury of a western winter rages across the land. Blizzards take their toll of ranches in the Dakota Badlands, leaving thousands of families ruined. The American West is a land that breaks the weak without mercy: only the strong survive. The Holts are survivors. But the winter of 1887 will test them and begin the events that will change their lives forever. As Toby Holt fights to save his new ranch, his headstrong son Tim gets silver fever and runs off to a dangerous world of desperate miners, greed, and temptation. The Holt women - the half-Cherokee Janessa and Toby's elegant wife Alexandra - must also battle for their destinies. Their happiness is threatened by prejudice and betrayaL and only the steely will of the Holts stands between tragedy and the tomorrow of their dreams in Oregon Legacy.