FREEDOM WEST

About the Book

In 1869, a wagon train of freed slaves heading west, looking for land, is attacked by Indians. Sadie is the only survivor. Black, free, and alone, she is rescued by a Sioux hunting party and taken to Red Cloud’s village on the Powder River. There she meets Pretty Flower, an Indian girl her own age. Pretty Flower’s aunt and uncle adopt Sadie. Sadie and Pretty Flower become good friends and life in Red Cloud’s camp is good until the Blue Coats come. The two girls are separated but meet again unexpectedly. As their lives intertwine, issues of slavery, freedom, and prejudice test their friendship and threaten their survival.

About the Author

Barbara was born in 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She moved west in 1990 and never looked back. Her favorite hobbies include painting, writing children’s books, and riding her horses. She lives in Jackson, Wyoming with her husband, Clark, their Newfoundland, Washakie, their cat, Sacajawea, and their two horses Black Eagle and Cloud Dancer. Her three grown children, Tim, Amy, and Kelly reside in the East.