{"product_id":"a-thousand-dead-horses-paperback-1","title":"A Thousand Dead Horses - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRod Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1840. The fur trade has all but ended and trappers in Taos feel the pinch. With a band of Ute Indians, they follow the Old Spanish Trail to California to steal horses and mules, then return and reap the profits in Santa Fe. The unprecedented raid results in the theft of some 3,000 animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Boone Pickens, a young man on the run from the law in Missouri and in search of a future, signs on for the adventure. Nooch, a young Ute, follows the leader of his band to prove his worth as a warrior. A young vaquero from California, Juan Medina, finds himself involved more from circumstance than choice. Along the trail, the young men forge bonds that surpass race and culture as they face hunger and thirst, fire and flood, bullet and blade.\u003cbr\u003eAnd together they grieve the deaths of more than a thousand of the stolen horses and mules on a mad dash across the dry and desolate Mojave Desert.\u003cbr\u003eBased on the real-life exploits of mountain men \"Pegleg\" Smith, \"Old Bill\" Williams, and Jim Beckwourth with Ute leader Wakara, \u003cem\u003eA Thousand Dead Horses\u003c\/em\u003e dramatizes conflicts in the evolving Old West.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 238\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267738550521,"sku":"9781645409892","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/PPlyg0PVDs9781645409892_a6a1e247-42a2-41e3-ad14-1ce105ac8dad.webp?v=1768868532","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-thousand-dead-horses-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}