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Book Series Overview

The adventure and romance of America, her people, her spirit and the west. The story of us.

One saga, five generations of unforgettable characters, and—through their eyes—one hundred seventy years of America, brim full of adventure, sensuality and intrigue. Sixteen sizzling reads divided into Eras:

1855-1875 (the Threads West/Maps of Fate Era novels);

1875-1900. (The North to Wyoming Era Novels);

1900-1939. (the Canyons Era Novels);

1939-1980. (The Coming Thunder Era Novels);

1980 to current time. (The Summits Era Novel).

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Threads West An American Saga

This first book and namesake of the sixteen-novel series that is being compared by reviewers and authors to Lonesome Done and Centennial. The tale bursts with the adventure, romance and promise of historical America and the West.

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Maps of Fate Era Novels

In the spring of 1855, America is on the cusp of her great westward expansion, reluctantly on the threshold of becoming a world power. St. Louis, gateway to the frontier, booms with an eight-fold population expansion from just a decade prior.

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North to Wyoming Era Novels

The final twenty-five years of the 1800’s is a period of rapid and far-reaching change in the West and the United States. The federal government expands its reach. Montana, Wyoming and the former territories of the Rocky Mountain West have achieved statehood.
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Canyons Era Novels

Age overtakes the second generation of Threads West characters. They are bewildered by, and resentful towards the industrial revolution, and resource evolution of the West, the changing nature of the lands and the impact of these events on America in the early 1900s.
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Coming Thunder Era Novels

The fourth-generation of Threads West's characters have reached their teens and early twenties. Their lives are turned upside down by the desperate tattered migration of Mid-westerners from the gritty dust bowls of the Great Plains, the beginnings of western urbanization, and the stubborn scars of the Depression.
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Summits Era Novels

The conclusion of the Threads West An American Saga series is set in the real-time of the contemporary West. (the author wipes his brow, mutters “phew!” under his breath, and grins.) The greatest generation, the heroes and heroines of World War II, grows older.
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The Author


Reid is fourth generation land and cattle. His cowboy heart and poet’s pen captures the spirit of the western landscape and its influence on generations of its settlers. His long-standing devotion to wild and remote places and to the people.
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