R.J. Striegel
Land Shadows
Land Shadows
1851, Isle of Barra: Nine-year-old Murdoch McNeil watches his family's land — and his world — stolen out from under him. Decades later, as a rising New York attorney, he's handed a chance to reclaim everything he lost... by signing a forged deed to a vast stretch of land in New Mexico. His father's voice echoes in his head: do anything you have to do to get and keep land.
He signs.
What follows is a sweeping saga of ambition, betrayal, and the American myth of ownership — spanning the Scottish Highlands, Gilded Age New York, and the contested Maxwell Land Grant. Interwoven is the story of Kewanee, a Potawatomi girl fighting to survive the forced assimilation of the Carlisle Indian School, her fate entwined with Murdoch's in ways neither can escape.…