Rosalind Turner

The Wind and the Blood

Fiction

“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.”