The Wind and the Blood
A True Story of the American West Without the Damned Nonsense
- Fiction
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2026
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Publisher's Description
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.
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“Sam Plunkett’s life in The Wind and the Blood: A True Story of the American West without the Damned Nonsense is a fierce journey of respect, integrity, and passion, told in his own words as a memoir meant to offer a more accurate depiction of life in the West. His path drifts between the world of the ‘spiders’ (European Americans) and the people he comes to love as his own—the Cheyenne. ‘I am Irish in my blood and Cheyenne in my heart,’ Sam declares as he steps into the Cheyenne nation with profound reverence, willing to surrender much of his American upbringing to fully embrace his adopted family. Instead of bowing to the rigid, paternal rules of the West, Sam follows his conscience, enduring the brutal demands of a mountain man’s life without surrendering kindness, compassion, or honor. Dr. Jim Prothero delivers a Western that feels honest, human, and cinematic—an American frontier story stripped of its usual nonsense, and a novel a smart production company would seize as the basis for an unforgettable mini-series.”
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