Not Just Any Man: A novel of Old New Mexico

Just a man.

Known for his character, not the color of his skin.

That's all Gerald, son of a free black man and an Irish servant girl, wants to be.

It's an impossible goal in slave-holding Missouri, but in the West, mountain men and villagers alike seem to accept him without question.

New Mexico is all that Gerald hoped for, but shortly after he arrives in Taos, he realizes he wants more than he'd thought: A girl with her own complex ancestry and a high mountain valley with intriguing potential.

To make either dream possible, Gerald needs to earn something more than a scratch living. The only way to do that is to trap beaver. It's a tough way to earn cash and the wilderness is an unforgiving place.

Can Gerald survive the Sangre de Cristo mountains, the Mohave Indians, and the arid south rim of the Grand Canyon as well as the fellow trapper who hates him for the color of his skin? Can he prove to himself and the girl he loves that he is, after all, not just any man?

Author: Loretta Miles Tollefson
Publisher: Palo Flechado Press
Published: 11/16/2018
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780998349855

About the Author
Tollefson, Loretta Miles: - Loretta Miles Tollefson grew up in the American West in a log cabin built by her grandfather. She lives in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains, where she researches the region's history and imagines what it would have been like to actually experience it.

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