Riders of the Hard Country - Book Two

“The West is wide, but the freedom in it is narrow.” — Isaiah Freeman

Book Two of the Freeman Legacy Saga.

They found the ground in the second spring of looking: a long creek bottom with timber at the water and grass on the benches, hard ground that nobody white had yet wanted badly enough to kill them for. Isaiah Freeman and a wagonload of free Black families make it Liberty Grove.

Then a letter comes, and Isaiah’s son Caleb goes to war. He rides with the Buffalo Soldiers into the hard country of the Southwest and the Apache campaigns, where the scouts, the surrenders, and the country itself teach him what his father could never say out loud. A son sent to fight. A war that takes more than land. A freedom he may not find again.

And at home, the keeping begins: two books on one shelf, a record and the reason for it, and a cedar chest that will carry this family across a century.

Twenty-eight chapters, from Liberty Grove to the chest. Told by the last man able to tell it, with a historical afterword that separates fact from fiction.

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