Hold Tight the Thread (#03 in Tender Ties Series)

The gripping third installment in Kirkpatrick's acclaimed Tender Ties series! As the 1840s bring conflict to the Pacific Northwest, Ioway Indian Marie faces ever-increasing challenges. Can unconditional love empower her to meet her struggling neighbors' needs and hold together the threads of her unraveling family? 410 pages.

BASED ON A TRUE STORY ?"In a land occupied by foreign powers and torn by confusion and conflict, a mother seeks to weave her family and her past into a fabric that will not tear.?"?Their Lives Were Woven by Wars and Wilderness Places, and Tied by the Peace of Family and Faith. ?As the 1840s bring conflict to the Pacific Northwest's rugged Columbia Country, new challenges face Marie Dorion Venier Toupin: the wife, mother, and Ioway Indian woman who crossed the Rocky Mountains with the Astor Expedition, the first big fur trapping expedition after Lewis and Clark's. On French Prairie in the newly forming Oregon Territory, Marie strives to meet the needs of her conflict-ridden neighbors: British settlers and Americans, missionaries and disease-stricken natives, fur trappers and French Canadian farming families, and the surviving natives of the region. ?At the same time, as a mother, Marie must weave together the threads of an unraveling family. One daughter compares and judRead less