{"product_id":"9780996539401","title":"Bitter's Run: An Oregon Trail Adventure","description":"Following Lee's surrender of the Army of Virginia to Grant on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Captain John Bitter of Abiqua Creek, Oregon musters out of the 40th Missouri. A loner, Bitter plans a quick ride home over the Oregon Trail. The good Lord, however, has other plans for him. \u003cp\u003eAfter a month on the Trail, two gun battles, a bruising fistfight to settle a blood feud, a new wife, and two adopted sons, Bitter tells Rockford, his big, mean, black horse, \"This sure complicates the business of getting back to Oregon.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBitter now finds himself the leader of a mixed entourage going west: a black pioneer family earlier wagon trains shunned; an Irish rebel turned galvanized Yankee; a dispossessed Cherokee turned Cheyenne medicine man; the rescued sister of a Bannock chief; a white boy adopted by the Cheyenne; and a scout for the Union Army who is also one of the richest men in Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBitter's Run is a spirited and adventurous tale. Told in three parts, it portrays the realities and uncertainties of life on the Oregon Trail, of the war-weary men seeking or returning to a homestead in Oregon, and of the courageous women who rode with them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bright Works Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024357703920,"sku":"9780996539401","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780996539401_p0.jpg?v=1763894710","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996539401","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}