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Finding Emma: A Saga of True Love, Danger, and the Clash of Cultures in the Frontier American West
Finding Emma: A Saga of True Love, Danger, and the Clash of Cultures in the Frontier American West
Finding Emma: A Saga of True Love, Danger, and the Clash of Cultures in the Frontier American West
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Finding Emma is a fantastic story of adventure and love intertwined with the true historical events of the 1860s American West and the clash of white and Native American cultures. The fictional couple, Bob and Emma, like thousands of emigrants, is thrust into this sometimes violent period, where their strength of character, their hope, and their love for each other get tested by the transforming events brought on by the civil war and the clash of white and Native cultures on the Great Plains. While many of the historical events of this period have been recorded, the lives and stories of many thousands of Native Americans, mountain men, traders, freighters, emigrants, farmers, and soldiers have been lost to history. This book invites you to follow the trials and tribulations of our fictional couple as they travel on the Santa Fe Trail to the emerging trading markets of the Southwest, only to be derailed by renegade Comanche and Sioux who attack their wagon train and change their lives forever. The story is set against the actual historical events and places of the period and will keep you spellbound until the dramatic and violent conclusion of Bob and Emmas odyssey.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateMar 19, 2015
ISBN9781503551879
Finding Emma: A Saga of True Love, Danger, and the Clash of Cultures in the Frontier American West
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Edmund J. Metz

Edmund J. Metz (with a BA and MA in economics and psychology, respectively) is a retired corporate executive whose professional career has included being a management trainer, a leadership and executive coach, and a consultant in organizational development/psychology for such leading corporations as Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, CHASE Bank, Charles Schwab, and Exelon. He has guided many executives in building successful business teams, building high-performance work relationships in companies, and developing advanced performance and succession systems. He is the author of numerous articles in professional journals. In this book, he applies his successful coaching techniques to creating step-by-step plan for helping define a pathway to relationship success for men and women wanting to be serious about building a really healthy and more successful relationship foundation.

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