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Driven by the Prairie Wind forced to leave everything
behind in Georgia and be
This summer was a very productive season for my writing! Th e marched across the coun-

release date for DRIVEN BY THE PRAIRIE WIND is currently try to Indian Territory.
set for November 1st, 2023.
As Lucy and Jane set out
While my husband (a teacher) was on summer vacation, I to build their new lives,
had the opportunity to take a road trip with him and explore their physical strength
many of the locations my characters visit in this novel and to and emotional endurance

perform comprehensive on-site research. This has been, to date, will be tested by adversity

the most challenging novel I’ve ever written! So many periods and doubt. Their stories of
in history are more complicated than we realize until we start westward movement and
digging deeper into the details. the Trail of Tears intersect
in a deeply personal way
I will be sharing more information about the places I visited and shed new light on the
on my blog (www.RebekahColburn) in the future and their era of Manifest Destiny.
connection to this story.
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Driven by the Prairie Wind -Book 2 of the American Heri-

tage Series, A Westward Expansion Novel If you haven’t read the first book in the series, ADRIFT ON
WINDS OF CHANGE, A REVOLUTIONARY WAR NOVEL
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of Texas is giving land away, he is eager to leave the familiar THE AMERICAN HERITAGE SERIES follows the fi ctional
behind and travel west for new opportunities. Lured by the Bloodsworth family from the 1770s through the 1860s, bring-
call of adventure, and cramped in a small farmhouse with ing to life the history of the United States through three of its
her in-laws, Lucy agrees to take their young son and trek well most formative eras.
over a thousand miles by covered wagon in search of a place
to call their own.

Jane Bloodsworth knew when she married a Cherokee man that

life with him would not be easy. The Indian Removal Act had
been passed years prior, but the Cherokee Nation continued
negotiations to stay on their tribal lands. Like many others,
her husband’s family had built a flourishing plantation, and he

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