Soft Gold A Tale of the Fur Trade

An agreeable marriage of good history and an equally good story, Soft Gold captures the essence of the most dynamic industry - the Fur Trade - of North America in the late 18th Century. Against this background, with crisp writing an unadorned description, Reiley portrays the lives of a lad from the Highlands of Scotland and a mixed blood native woman. The infatuation grows into love and all the bright prospects for a lifetime of bliss are overtaken by a clash of cultures. Readers will appreciate a finely crafted story based on reality.