Böcker av John Erwin

In the summer of 1858, young Jedediah P. Carpenter finds himself orphaned and alone on the Oregon trail in the middle of Nebraska Territory. He also finds himself smitten with the beautiful Emma Cooper, three years his senior, who has ridden off into the morning sunrise with the despicable Zeke Jones. Jed's will to reach his family's original destination in Oregon is hampered by his lack of survival skills and the specter of the oncoming winter. Through an unlikely true friendship with a wandering Arapaho, Pete Scares-the-Ponies, Jedediah learns and hones those skills. Instead of heading for Oregon, though, Jed finds himself in a little mining camp called Buckskin Joe in the early days of the great Pikes Peak gold rush. His whole life takes a turn when the mysterious "Silverheels" comes to town and he experiences a love that will carry him through fifty years of solitude and beyond . . . the kind of love we all seek.Jedediah's story will draw you into the breathtaking beauty of the Rocky Mountains in the early days of the territory that became the state of Colorado. Along the way, you will experience joy, sorrow, love and adventure, in this fictional explanation of the naming of one of Colorado's prominent mountains, Mount Silverheels.

"The Jedediah Chronicles" presents two stories concerning the life and legacy of Jedediah P. Carpenter in a single volume: "Into the Snow: The Testimony and Last Will of Jedediah P. Carpenter" and "Jed's Legacy."

Eight short stories that span many times and places and do not fit neatly into any genre pigeonholes. Titles include "Reflections in a Plate Glass Window," "Skeet's Revenge," "Raging Against the Machine," "The Snow in Cheyenne," "Seeds of Insurrection," "A Change of Season," "Mutant Trappers," and "After the Flood."

In the summer of 1858, Jedediah P. Carpenter finds himself orphaned at the age of 16 on the plains of Nebraska Territory. Faced with a choice between making his way west to Oregon to join his uncle and aunt, or heading southwest to Pikes Peak country to try his hand at gold prospecting, his fate is sealed by forces beyond his control. Join Jed as he pursues a life of his own making in the American west with the help of generous mountain men and plains Indians, an itinerant Methodist preacher, and the alluring Emma Cooper.

"Jed's Legacy," a sequel to "Into the Snow: The Testimony and Last Will of Jedediah P. Carpenter," is Book 2 in "The Jedediah Chronicles" series. Loretta and Sam Wilson are reeling from their seventeen-year-old son's enlistment in the army in the first months of the U.S. involvement in World War I. Partly to divert themselves from their worries about Davy, and partly out of concern for their friend's welfare, Lo' and Sam set out to find Jedediah P. Carpenter. Jed has not been seen since the autumn of 1916 -- the spring of 1917 is almost over and Jed has not emerged from his cabin in the ghost town of Buckskin Joe. A discovery in Jed's snow-bound cabin leads Lo' and Sam on a months-long adventure that takes them to some of Colorado's highest mountains, out onto the vast eastern plains of Colorado, and home again.