Page turning fiction so richly mixed with actual events as to make one wonder where the fiction begins.
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A WIND OF MANY COLORS is a love story, a murder mystery, and a swashbuckling adventure wrapped accurately in customs and historical events of pre-Civil War America. The robust characters, or their parents, or perhaps their grandparents arrived on these shores in ships powered by the wind. Prior to the Civil War, those who arrived with the wind and their descendants considered themselves as Irish, English, German, Spanish, French or Negro, all living among the American Indians.
In 1859, a remarkable group of this ethnic mix is drawn from their mansions or shacks to ride the difficult trails or cruise on luxurious steamboats. They congregate briefly at the edge of civilization in as unruly of a place as the frontier ever harbored; and where a remarkable group of women were keeping a thin veneer of civilization in place. A place called the City of Kansas.
Attacks on the successful Purdy family require third-generation Irish-American John Purdy to form this marvelous team. Purdy needs their help to carry out his brilliant plan to capture the half-crazed woodsman who is determined to seize his beautiful German wife, Mattie.The woodsman is obsessed by Mattie's beauty and will stop at nothing to have her as his pet.
Failing to possess her he has vowed to kill her. The Purdys' devotion to each other will warm your heart, the senseless
