The Wind Blows Free (Tales of the Texas Panhandle series: #1)

By: Loula Grace Erdman

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Synopsis: Author of THE EDGE OF TIME, THE YEARS OF THE LOCUST, etc. This is the story of the Pierce family— Mama and Papa and their four children who went to the Panhandle of Texas in the 1890’s to file on a claim and make a new home in this strange new land. Specifically, it is fourteen-year-old Melinda’s story. She had not wanted to leave East Texas and her friends who lived there. All that reconciled her to the move was the promise that when she was fifteen she could go back. At first she liked the new home no better than she thought she would. But gradually Melinda began to acquire a certain feel for the country, with its great distances and its level, unending miles over which the wind blew, wild and free. Without realizing what was happening to her, she came to love this new land—and to want to do something for it. That is how all of America has grown. This is the story of the changes brought about in Melinda and in Dennis Kennedy, sixteen-year-old nephew of a ranch owner who "had things so easy” no one thought he could possibly amount to anything—and in the whole Pierce family. It is the sort of genuinely American story that this good Texas author can tell so very well, as she proved in her prize-winning novel, the years OF the locust, and in her recent popular novel of the Texas Panhandle, THE EDGE OF TIME.