The
Saga of Indian Em'ly
Books
1-4
by
Sara Harris
Genre:
Historical Adventure
Twelve-year-old
Wind That Knocks Down Lodges loves his little sister, Cactus Flower,
and the wildness of the desert canyonland the Apache call home. But
in one night of misunderstanding and mistakes, Knocks Down and Cactus
Flower’s innocent world is shaken as they find themselves locked in
the nearby fort with the pale face soldiers and their mother’s
lifeless body. With no one to lean on but each other, Knocks Down and
Cactus Flower must make their way as children of The People in the
pale face world—pale faces who have now become the enemy.
After
finding themselves at the mercy of the Army, far from Apache
Territory and well on the trail to Colorado, Knocks Down must bring
himself to trust the soldier, Pale Face Joe. But Joe disappears, and
when ordered to dispose of the children or else, the other Army
soldiers waste no time in depositing them at the nearest Catholic
orphanage.
They
manage to escape the evil orphanage along with a new pale face
friend, Kid McCoy. But they are set upon by a gang of murdering claim
jumpers who steal Cactus. With Kid McCoy’s help, Knocks Down goes
after her. When they encounter a soldier who was responsible for
their mother’s death, they realize he’s set on seeing them dead,
as well. How can a boy defeat a battle-hardened soldier? Just when
Knocks Down is about to give up, the biggest surprise of all changes
everything...
Sara
is a mother of four, animal lover and advocate, and conservationist.
Little House on the Prairie, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, and Lonesome
Dove are among her favorite shows/movies and books. Sara holds her
B.A. in History and is the author of the historical romance series,
An Everlasting Heart, from 5 Prince Publishing and recently debuted
into the children's book realm with Chunky Sugars (5 Prince Kids),
written for her own chunky baby.
GUEST POST
I first learned of a woman named Indian Em'ly when my parents and I
accidentally found her supposed grave while wandering lost at Fort
Davis. Her story and legend lives on there in the mountains of
south Texas. Several people have told me Em'ly never existed .
. . that she is just a legend. They can't explain why she has a
tombstone (which has since been taken down . . .) but seem certain
she never existed. Me? I side with the Shinbone Star newspaper
reporters from the John Wayne classic, The Man Who Shot Liberty
Valance . . . "when the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
This one's for you, Em'ly.
I started writing this four-book series
even before I published my first novel, A Heart on Hold. Funny
thing- in my four-book Everlasting Heart series (where A Heart on
Hold is book #1), a young child is born to 19th century Army wife
Charlotte and her husband, Captain Sanderson Redding named Charlie
Redding, one of the heroes of my Indian Em'ly saga. Silver Sky
is another of my characters from another of my fiction novels, Silver
Sky at Dawn (coming soon). Young Cactus Flower is named in
honor of Quanah Parker and Cynthia Ann Parker's young daughter,
Prairie Flower -- I lived down the road from their final resting
places at Fort Sill, Oklahoma when I wrote these books.
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