Across the Purple Divide

Across the Purple Divide . . . 2006 ISBN 0-9715440-2-6 205 p. softcover William Shannon, from rugged Durango, crosses Colorado’s gold-mining towns and encounters the dangers still present in the late 1800s American West as he rides the Smoky Hill Trail into Kansas and meets rebel Kiowa Indians. Circumstance sends the rancher to New York City and then a return to his Colorado home torn apart by the blood-letting of a range war.