01523cam a2200265 4500 367103651 TxAuBib 20181229120000.0 170628s2018||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2017029702 9781410499035 1410499030 (OCoLC)992437395 TxAuBib Colt, Paul,. Sycamore promises / Paul Colt. First edition. Waterville, Maine : Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2018] 497 pages : Paperback ; 23 cm. A young couple leaves Ohio for the promise of a new life on the Kansas plains. They settle a prime tract of farm land near Lawrence, Kansas. A second young couple slips the bonds of slavery in Missouri. Circumstance brings them together. Set against the backdrop of a nation divided over the issue of slavery, the young settlers fight to hold their land and realize the future that unites them. Opposed by powerful forces they face human treachery, hostile Indians, prejudice, and a bloody, burning prelude to war as they battle to hold a hard-won home and fulfill the promises of their future. Sycamore Promises is a sweeping personal saga told with attention to history so as to both entertain and inform.--Provided by Amazon.com. 20181229. Frontier and pioneer life Fiction. Landowners Fiction. Western fiction.