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The Crossed Sabres (The House of Winslow #13)

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This book continues to follow the descendents of Sky and Rebekah Winslow through their son Thomas. Just before the Civil War Thomas had been courting a young lady along with his best friend and no one could tell who she was going to pick. She chose Thomas and they were quickly married.

When he would come to visit his wife during the war she would seem distant and uncaring. When the war finally ends he comes home and his wife is not there. He later finds out that she had run off with his best friend a few weeks before. He later finds himself without a wife and with a newborn daughter.

Thomas has the opportunity to work under General George Custer in the Northern Plains. He will be able to spend more time with his daughter and she will be able to go to school regularly. Once Thomas arrives at the post a ghost appears from the past as a superior officer. What does the Plains have in store for Thomas and his daughter?

We also meet Faith Jamison who is supposed to travel to the Plains to open a school for the Indians with her future husband. Through changes of heart Faith heads to the Plains by herself. Will the Plains and the Indians be ready for Faith Jamison?

Overall I enjoyed this book. I normally don't get into books about the battles with the Indians but I really enjoyed how Gilbert Morris presented the information in the book.

While the overall story about Tom's life after the civil war is good, I would have liked to know what he did between the chapter where his wife died in childbirth and the next chapter where his daughter is 11 years old! The ending indicates that Tom plans to leave the Army, but in Book 16, "The Jeweled Spur," which is about his daughter several years later, he's still in the Army, and never intends to leave. In another later book, Sky & Rebekah's children hold a reunion, and this time Tom HAS left the Army. He'd be considered quite wishy-washy in real life!

The House of Winslow series continues with the story of Sky Winslow's son Tom, who has been left alone with a newborn daughter to raise. Wanting to leave memories of the Civil War and a bitter marriage behind, Tom heads West and joins the Army in its efforts among the Indians. Gilbert Winslow weaves the fictional story of Tom's battle to make peace with his past and with God with the true and tragic story of Custer's Last Stand. As with other books in this series, I enjoyed learning the historical details while watching another member of the House of Winslow develop faith in God. I can't wait to read Book Fourteen to discover what happens next in America and among the Winslows.