Auspicious Dreams

by Shelia Bolt Rudesill, Bud Rudesill

Auspicious Dreams knits the lives of three spirited youths whose government promises a glorious future in the Great American West. The insatiable greed that leaves women, Native Americans, Blacks, Spaniards, and Mexicans scavenging for equality in the white male dominated society, threatens to rip their relationships apart. Roy Caldwell jeopardizes his dream for that happy life, in a valiant effort to secure the dreams of the liberated love of his life, Sarah Margaret Lovelace, the Native American, Wahniki Wanshee Umatah, his childhood best friend, and even the wealthy Spanish Grandee, Emilio Santiago, his mentor and ally. Auspicious Dreams is filled with delightful, disturbing, and intimate stories of young love and strong passions that reveal both the delicate and sometimes disgraceful side of Frontier America.