Title: St. Agnes' Stand
First published: 1994
Description: A magnificent debut novel of survival on the Western frontier by a talented new author. Running from a posse and a murder charge, Nat Swanson stumbles across a stranded group of three nuns and seven orphans who have been attacked by Apache. Though he's no hero, Nat agrees to help them out of the desert.
Subjects: Fiction, Apache Indians, Orphans, Nuns, Catholics, Large type books, Wars, 1883-1886, Fiction, westerns, Fiction, historical, general, New mexico, fiction
Places: New Mexico
Time periods: Wars, 1883-1886