About This Book
GATEWAY TO DREAMS
Crossroads of a continent, Kansas lies at the heart of American history. For centuries this land of limitless horizons, of fertile soil and tall grasses, has drawn men and women of desperation, desire, and destiny.
First there were the native Americans: Osage, Pawnee, and others. Then in 1541 came the Spanish conquistadors, the first of a flood of new arrivals, followed by the people of France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and ultimately the United States. This is the story of Heron Woman, who will give birth to a child of destiny; of a freed slave named Washington, who follows in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, choosing to live among the Comanches; of Jed Sterling, an easterner who seeks his fortune in the wilderness, where he will discover the price of love and survival. Sweeping across the miles and the centuries, Tallgrass captures as never before the grandeur of the Great North American prairie.
