The Prairie Dance

Fleeing an arranged marriage, Maggie Glass hops on a stagecoach headed west. Beautiful, wealthy, and naïve, she can rely only on her book smarts. Two drunks rob her and throw her from a racing stagecoach and onto the Kansas prairie. Alone in the wide sea of grass, she keeps the wolves at bay by flapping her parasol open and shut. Mary Fields is tall and gruff, a former slave set adrift after the Civil War. After buffalo wolves attack her coach, the hitch breaks free and Mary teeters along on two wheels until finally she tumbles onto the prairie.They find each other and head to Abilene, Kansas, the first of the Wild West towns--where they keep company with con artists, cow hands, and an outlaw so dangerous it is against the law to apprehend him. By the time Maggie's fiancee tracks her down, two of her suitors end up dead and the town forever changed.The Prairie Dance doesn't attempt to tell or rewrite history, but weaves together the yarns and anecdotes of several African Americans who lived in the Wild West.

• | Author: John Rae
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: November 27, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1709502371
• | ISBN-13: 9781709502378