You’re holding something special… one of the very first entries in our America250 series of books celebrating America’s sestercentennial or semiquincentennial, or just plain 250th anniversary of the founding of this great nation, highlighting the contribution that Western heroes have made to building this great nation.
We open with Jackson Lowry’s The Pathfinder, a novel about John Charles Frémont and Kit Carson, and the opening of the West. Without their literal trailblazing, their bravery and survival skills, the settling of the West might have taken years or decades longer!
Lowry is well-known to Western readers and he tells his tale with his customary narrative drive and grace. Here is a tale of fortitude, privation, courage and patriotism. Frémont and Carson step from the shadows of history in this story of their harrowing adventures in blazing a trail that opened America for the pioneers.
DSP is the only traditional publisher to commission a special series of novels to commemorate America’s 250th birthday. As a publisher specializing in Westerns, we knew it was impossible for us not to celebrate the grit, the pioneer spirit, and the heroism of our Western American heritage. From Owen Wister to Zane Grey to Larry McMurtry to Cormac McCarthy, Western writers have help define the American West and shape American values and spirit
I like to think of The Pathfinder, and the other upcoming novels in America250, as a worthy part of that tradition.
Genre: Western
We open with Jackson Lowry’s The Pathfinder, a novel about John Charles Frémont and Kit Carson, and the opening of the West. Without their literal trailblazing, their bravery and survival skills, the settling of the West might have taken years or decades longer!
Lowry is well-known to Western readers and he tells his tale with his customary narrative drive and grace. Here is a tale of fortitude, privation, courage and patriotism. Frémont and Carson step from the shadows of history in this story of their harrowing adventures in blazing a trail that opened America for the pioneers.
DSP is the only traditional publisher to commission a special series of novels to commemorate America’s 250th birthday. As a publisher specializing in Westerns, we knew it was impossible for us not to celebrate the grit, the pioneer spirit, and the heroism of our Western American heritage. From Owen Wister to Zane Grey to Larry McMurtry to Cormac McCarthy, Western writers have help define the American West and shape American values and spirit
I like to think of The Pathfinder, and the other upcoming novels in America250, as a worthy part of that tradition.
Genre: Western