Sappa Creek Road

Joab has been devistated by the violence of the Civil War. Sally's husband was killed during the Civil War. Jack and Detta are each running from a troubled past. Add in two little boys who love to fish along Sappa Creek, some Indians, a couple of jail breakers, and you will be spell-bound at what happens when they all meet along the Sappa Creek Road. This is a heart warming story of love, redemption, changed lives, and shared compssion.

In 1877, after the defeat of Custer at Little Bighorn, the U.S. Government removed the Northern Cheyenne from their traditional homelands to a reservation in Indian Territory(Oklahoma.) This is the story surrounding the breakout of the Northern Cheyenne from Darlington Reservation in 1878 and their bloody but futile attempt to return to their homeland in Montana.

Twenty years have passed since Randell Cordell abandoned his dying wife and ran off with another woman. He was vilified by everyone in the small community for his heartless and immoral behavior. Hes determined to make a fresh start to his troubled life and hopes to redeem himself by returning to the town where his downfall began. He knows the challenges will be great, but the unexpected appearance of the woman he ran off with, and an irresistible little orphan girl, upsets his plans and leads him down some startling and unexpected pathways. This is a heartwarming story of redemption and love, which will uplift the heart and engage the mind of the reader, leaving them pondering the many twists and turns of life.

"In Massacre at Cheyenne Hole, John H. Monnett sifts through the various interpretations of the event over the years and places them into proper historical perspective."--BOOK JACKET. "Avoiding the current approach of separating the participants into clear camps of victims and victimizers, Monnett instead uses the Sappa Creek battle as a case study to understand how Americans since 1875 have perceived the Indian wars in general within the larger cultural construct."--BOOK JACKET.

Ros McClure knows that she’s well-qualified and deserves the promotion the university has promised. But she didn’t expect that the good ol’ boys network would be standing in her way. She’s willing to stubbornly wait a little longer, but a family emergency is drawing her back to a time and a place she’d rather leave in her past. Stacy Hagen has been a high school biology teacher for nearly three decades. Living in a small Kansas farm town, she can multitask like nobody’s business. Farmer, tennis coach, part-time housepainter—she can do it all. What she hasn’t been able to do is find the love of her life. When their paths cross again after twenty-five years, will old secrets finally be exposed? Or will hearts be broken once again…