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Two families searching for wealth adventure and a new way of life are thrown together in the California goldfields of the 1850s This is a story of their journeys to this wild frontier and their struggles for survival against bandits animal attacks harsh winters natural disasters and their own personal demons Whoever possesses the gold nugget talisman has their life influenced by the power of this mysterious stone Tenny Woods experience of a religious epiphany coincident with the discovery of a rich gold deposit convinces him that he is God s chosen messenger Obsessed by a religious fever he abandons his family to preach the Lord s word On a return trip a raging winter storm confines him to an abandoned cabin without food where he gradually loses his Faith and descends into madness His treatment of his beautiful wife Rachel sends her into the arms of Jonathan Sarsfield whose untimely death sets the stage for her taking his son Josh as her lover This is the final step in Tenny s breakdown In an insane rage he kills Rachel and Josh s baby Josh s revenge for the murder of his lover and son takes his hunt for Tenny throughout the camps of the Motherlode and into the mountains to an eventual showdown TalismanA GOODREADS GIVEAWAYDespite the Egyptian like ankh the talisman shown on the cover it turns out this novel is a western of sorts It s a tale of the Oregon Trail and the wild frontier of the California goldfields during the 1850s. Talisman metin2 Seeking a better life Weren t all those restless pioneers looking for the same greener pastures the mythical pastures of plenty Tenny Woods loads his family into a covered wagon hitches his mules and points their noses west No surprise Indians attack While defending his wife Rachel from a rapacious Indian Tenny first exhibits the blind anger and extreme violence that will eventually lead to personal tragedy. Kindle nederlands At one point however while Tenny and his friend Jonathan are talking the author offers the most sympathetic sentence towards Tenny in the whole book He Jonathan heard the voice of a saint but he also sensed the anger and the touch of madness of a mortal This insight into Tenny s character allows readers even though sometimes they d like to take a piece of axletree and knock his block off so to speak to see Tenny not as just a madman but as a tormented human gone wrong allows for a kind of there but for fortune perspective. El talisman epub It s a gold nugget shaped like an Egyptian ankh Supposedly it brings luck to whoever possesses it Perhaps it truly does protect Hey in one scene it acts like Mother s bible deflecting a potentially fatal bullet from a young man s heart. Pdfcoffee talisman I enjoyed this story of people thrown together during the California Gold Rush The author is a retired geologist and gives convincing accounts of gold prospecting as well as the journeys of emigrants on the Overland Trail The frontier setting and the characters apparent helplessness in the face of base instincts make The Talisman heavily reminiscent of American naturalist novels I was especially reminded of McTeague in some places: Talismans elden ring Unsatisfied with life as a gold seeker Tenny abandons his family and becomes a man of God becomes The Preacher. Talisman tool rental Denied her husband s love Rachel finds comfort in the arms of another man well a couple of other men over time: Talismanq quiz Tenny meanwhile descends mine shaft deep into madness Voices in his head accompanied by hallucination haunt him to dangerous distraction. Talisman use All in all a well spun yarn 318 I received a copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway, Talisman erweiterungen I d recommend this book to any fans of American naturalism pioneer California history or twisted family sagas 318
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