Glorieta Pass P. G. Nagle | ISBN : 0-312-86548-1

Glorieta Pass

Author: P. G. Nagle

Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

Publication Date: 16 April, 1999

ISBN: 9780312865481

Pages: 448

Subjects: Historical, War and military

Available as: , Trade Cloth, 978-0-312-86548-1 Trade Paper, 978-1-61138-049-1

Description:

As the Civil War tears its way across America four lives are swept up and forever changed: a Colorado miner who captains a volunteer Union company; a young Texan who becomes a quartermaster in the Confederate Army; a Union lieutenant with a terrible secret; and a young Boston lady in the care of her uncle. These four lives will become intertwined by the bloody battle of Glorieta, and irrevocably changed by the shattering experience of war.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 1998-08-31

Recounting the adventures of five people caught in a quandary of allegiances and passions brought on by the Civil War, this engrossing debut dramatizes the preamble to the 1862 battle between Texans fighting for the South and Union troops reinforced by ragtag Coloradans at Glorieta Pass, just outside Santa Fe, N.Mex. The characters, whose paths cross on the trail from Colorado to Texas in 1861, include an illiterate miner who dreams of becoming a gentleman by commanding a company of Colorado Volunteers; an orphaned young Bostonian woman adjusting to life in Santa Fe; the son of a Texas rancher who fights for the Confederates; a Tennessee man torn between conflicting loyalties; and a young Colorado officer with a murky past. Although at times the pace is slowed by a superfluity of characters and subplots, Nagle's tidy prose evokes memorable protagonists, vivid landscapes and high suspense, not only in the gut-wrenching action but also in the relationships between her characters. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved