The Wind and the Blood: A True Story of the American West Without the Damned Nonsense

By James Prothero

Sam Plunkett is fourteen years old when he leaves St. Louis for the last time in 1833 and goes to live in the Rocky Mountains as a fur trapper and marry a Cheyenne woman. His life, from that year till his death in 1906, is a story of a man with his heart among Native American people facing conquest by the American nation. As a renegade, he is caught in between. This is a true story of the American West, in which race, tribe, language, and intentions can either gain a man allies or get him killed in a matter of seconds. Among these beautiful mountains and prairies, when death can ambush in an instant, Sam Plunkett must find a life and find the truth about race, about love, and about how life should be lived.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXX258SB
• ISBN13: 9798385267224
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"