The Poudre Canyon Saga

About The Poudre Canyon Saga - A Western Historical Trilogy

The saga follows the lives of Jean and Andre Pelletier as they flee Canada ahead of powerful Maurice LeSueur, whose son Jean has killed in a fit of rage. The brothers make their way into the American West where the brothers melt into the world of the mountain man and Indian. Andre takes a bride from the
Crow Nation and remains with the tribe. Jean moves on to find his place in the west. He finds it in the Poudre Canyon country of what will become Colorado. Taking a bride, Jean builds his home on the banks
of the Cache le Poudre River.

As Jean raises his family, Andre raises his in the Crow world where war has broken out between the Lakota nation and the Army. White settlers and the Army fill the west as tensions between white man and Indian escalate. Eventually Andre brings his family to join Jean’s family in the Poudre Canyon where they build a future together.

The Poudre Canyon Saga follows the historical trail of the early 1800’s with accuracy as to detail and events. Filled with authentic frontier action and situations, yet true to the era, the story is a picture of
the men and women who fleshed out the western movement.

Drawing on historical documents, from both white and Indian writers and historians, the reader gets a full and accurate picture of the times from the eyes of all involved.

Where Free Men Gather - Book One of the Poudre Canyon Saga

Claude LeSueur hurled his final insult in the face of Jean Pelletier igniting the young trapper’s white hot temper. A flash of fury and a naked blade left the son of wealthy fur merchant Maurice LeSueur gasping out his last breath on the banks of the St. Lawrence.

Jean, together with his brother Andre, flee Canada and the hangman’s gallows, while behind them follow two murderous river pirates, Joseph Quesnel and his silent partner known only as ‘the wolverine.’ Hired by LeSueur to hunt them down Quesnel harbors his own secret hatred for Jean Pelletier and is hunting for his own purposes.

Making their way into the American West where free trappers gathered and beaver shined the brothers melt into the world of the Indian and the mountain man. As the years pass the memories of Canada and Claude LeSueur become faded dreams until the day Jean’s past comes back and threatens the new life he has so carefully built.

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White Grizzly - Book Two of the Poudre Canyon Saga

     Thirty years have passed since Andre Pelletier parted from his brother and
     became White Grizzly the Crow War Chief. War has gripped the West with the
     Sioux nation joining forces with the Cheyenne and Arapaho to fight the hated
     blue coat soldiers over the treaty breaking Bozeman Road. The Crow were
     content to let their enemy, the Sioux, struggle with the soldiers until a patrol
     out of Fort Phil Kearny attacked the village of White Grizzly hurling them into
     the war.

     Pressed between his position of leadership, a son gone insane and renegade,
     and the knowledge that the world they knew is rapidly changing Andre makes
     the long journey to Colorado to leave the women and children of his family in
     the safety of his brother Jean. Then, accompanied by his sons, White Grizzly
     returns to the Powder River to fight a war he’s not sure they can win.

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The Men from Poudre Canyon - Book Three of The Poudre Canyon Saga

Atlanta carpetbagger Justin Hornsworth finds himself in Fort Collins and eyeing Jean Pelletier’s home. Having successfully murdered and swindled his way to wealth in the war-weary south, he sees no
reason why a backwoodsman like Pelletier would offer any resistance to his plan to take the ranch.
He didn’t know Jean Pelletier.

When Jean and his sons put an end to Hornsworth’s plan, the carpetbagger takes a more vicious trail
bent on destroying the man he has come to hate. In a vengeance-ridden move, his gang kidnaps four
of the Pelletier women from Jean's and Andre’s families with the intention of selling them to a white slaver in New Orleans. Believing he has dealt a killing blow to Jean Pelletier, he revels in his victory
not realizing that when you take on one Pelletier you take them all on.

Hornsworth’s grave just needed to be filled in the day the men from Poudre Canyon took to his trail.

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