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This culminating novel in the four volume "Sunny of the Old Southwest" collection follows Virginian Aaron Jefferson and his Navajo wife, now residng in Texas and heirs to a big ranch, as they take a role in the Red River War, the last gasp of the Comanche Nation (the remants of Comancheria) and then return to each others homelands to visit. First, in Virgina and trapped by her snows, they see the first child born in the cabin of Aaron's birth. Decades later, they take all four children (spaced each a year apart and the youngest then nine) to the home of Sunny's Dine People (Navajo), "Dinetah" in the beautiful, austere, red, rocky deserts and canyons. There the youngsters learn of "Mama's" past. Staying for months, the family helps the people, who are still those years later healing and rebuilding from the "Long Walk of the Navajo People," the years in internment in the concentration camp at Bosque Redondo, and the long walk back to their devastated homeland.

Robert Jackson was an educator before working in his first loves writing & art. These reflect his interest in the culture and history of America and his wife's homeland, the Philippines. The latter was once America's biggest and farthest colony. The couple lived in the Repúblika ng Pilipinás for several years during the Marcos era. He taught in public schools in Virginia & Texas and on elementary, secondary, and college levels in the Philippines. He coached college women's volleyball in the Islands as well. Robert Jackson's website contains Christian and politically conservative cartoons, commentary, poetry, and more. He is a graduate of Mr. Jefferson's University, the University of Virginia. Though his stories contain mature themes and subject matter as well as realistic violence, they are devoid of blatant and gratuitous sexual and violent content. The novels and poetry of Robert Jackson tend to be set in historical periods, especially but not exclusively colonial and frontier periods.