Two Rivers: Wild West Novel

by Richard Rice, David Rice (Illustrator), John Rice (Editor)

Between 1922 and 1927 the author, from Fermoy, Ireland, travelled, trapped, and traded over extensive tracts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan where, for the fur-trading firm for which he worked, he did business with myriad local tribes and other inhabitants but mainly with the Cree Indians. His first novel was Forbidden Valley, and it was published around 1950. Two Rivers was his second wild west novel and was published for the first time in 2018. It tells the story of James Moore and Mary Lee who set out from Fort Leavenworth in the State of Kansas in the 1880s as part of a group of white settlers pioneering westward into Arizona and New Mexico. While anxiously anticipating what the future offered, life was never going to be easy. As they crossed the open land to a new life they hoped to come across many opportunities , but also knew they could face perils – not just from the hard life involved in setting up new homes, but also from possible Indian attacks. But as ever truth is stranger than fiction and what lay ahead for them they truly could not anticipate. Two Rivers is a true wild west novel, written by someone who lived the life himself. Ranch life, the perils of pioneering, action with Indians and rogue Mexicans, and romance all interweave in this story.

227 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 7, 2019

About the author

Richard Rice (PhD, University of Chicago Divinity School) is professor of religion at Loma Linda University. He is the author of several books, including Suffering and the Search for Meaning, Reason and the Contours of Faith, and God's Foreknowledge and Man's Free Will, and coauthor of The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God.