THE CHEROKEE TRAIL is one of the few westerns that treat woman as main characters in a realistic manner. Mary Breydon and her daughter Peg struggle to survive after her husband is murdered.A previous reviewer took issue with a Confederate being in the Colorado Territory while the Civil War as raging in the East. For the answer to that one I will refer him to Hampton Sides, BLOOD AND THUNDER (Life of Kit Carson) and a little known incident of the Confederate foray from Texas into New Mexico and Colorado. Mr. L'Amour's research and knowledge of western history was on the money.Writing as a Small BusinessQualifying Laps: A Brewster County NovelGuns Across the Rio: A Texas Ranger in Old MexicoBlood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West