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Black Powder,
Gray Hope: New
Americans concludes the saga. Kelsey finds a reason
to trust Patrick and together they struggle against locust invasions,
blizzards, land speculators and angry neighbors. Their brothers,
wives and children join their small community; together they build
a church. Patrick’s niece Eva disappears; Patrick and Tom
pursue buffalo hunters into South Dakota. During a formidable blizzard
Patrick marches into the white-out to search for ‘General
Thomas,’ his beloved bull. His sons swear to lead the Harant
family; his son Mark renews an old family tradition and joins the
Navy.
(Mark is the grandfather of James Fynmore Harant, the Naval Lieutenant
in the novel Gold …then Iron)
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