Bøker av Johny Weber

Set in the Wyoming and Colorado territories of the 1880s, Mountain Ranch is the epic story of three families who carved a place on the American frontier. Changes have come to Twin Peaks Ranch and to the families that call the ranch their home. Kade Welles and his stepson, Jake, have challenges they never imagined. The shifts in Kade's life bring more complications than he expects as he approaches age sixty.The young men of the ranch are beginning to take over some of the leadership roles, and Kade is willing to let them do just that. When tragedy strikes, Kade needs to find his own path to a normal life.For Jake, the challenges of being a mixed-blood Ute and facing prejudice off the ranch is a continuing issue. As Jake takes on a leadership role on the ranch, the obstacles he must deal with range from family matters to wolf packs and outlaws.¿Finally, James, a distant cousin of Jake, at eighteen, is taking on more responsibility and growing into a man. How James rises to the trials he encounters in the red-light district of Laramie and on the Wyoming prairie is the tribute to his upbringing and to the men and women of Twin Peaks Ranch who have guided him along the way.

In the mountains at the southern edge of Wyoming Territory, three families banded together in the mid-1800s and formed a community, raising livestock and garden produce. The founding family, the Welles, took excess livestock to trade with the pioneers along the Oregon Trail. This is the story of those families and the young people that are coming of age. Central to the story is Jake Bates Welles, the oldest son of Sabra Welles and her first husband, Blue Knife, a Ute warrior. Now the adopted son of Kade Welles, Sabra's second husband, Jake walks between two cultures. Jake grew up with his white family yet spends his summers trading with the Ute and living in the Colorado mountain cabin of his late grandfather, Jacob Bates, and spending time in his half-brother, Brown Otter's village. Jake has many obstacles to overcome outside the ranch as a half-white and half-Ute man, but within his community, Jake has earned the respect of everyone. This is Jake's story. Where does he fit into this world? Where does a man like Jake find a wife? What are the obstacles that stand in his way as he makes his way on the American frontier? The changes coming to the land, to the Ute's, and to the ranch that these families named Twin Peaks is a frontier story of perseverance, solidarity, and love.

In 1847, sixteen-year-old Sabra, facing a forced marriage, enlists the help of Jacob Bates, an old mountain man, to take her to the mountains of the American west, where she hopes to raise good horses while hiding from her wealthy but cruel father. But danger lies within the wilds of the mountains too, and when Sabra finds herself alone, her life takes many turns, eventually forcing her from her mountain home. Fighting for her freedom and the life of her child, she eventually finds her way back to the beauty of her beloved mountains, the horses she loves, and the one man who has her heart.