While the book is set in the post-Civil War American West, it is an early new age fantasy, where Shelby Lopez, the lone outlaw, encounters Native
American, Thunderbird Hawkins, in the middle of the desert.
As the two men venture off into an epic journey in search of "The Great Necklace," they discover their pasts are intertwined by common ancestors and bloodlines. Confronting a wild cast of characters in violence, romance and comedy, Shelby and Thunderbird come to realize there are no magical solutions, and that the world itself is a magical place, and that the mystery of life is in unlocking one's greatest potential.

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