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What fun and darn near unputdownable! Paint the Wind begins as ten year old Fancy Deverell's parents are murdered and their Louisiana plantation burned by marauding Yankee soldiers. Loyal slave Atticus saves Fancy from the destruction and with no other family left he takes Fancy along as they head west for a better life. After being on the road for a couple of years they meet up with a motley group of misfits in a circus run by Wes Jarvis and the spooky gypsy Magda. After several years on the road the circus disbands and Fancy and Atticus once again head west, but Atticus's health fails them in the Mosquito Mountains of Colorado and Fancy is left on her own as a deadly snow storm hits and she takes a tumble down a mountain side.....

Meanwhile the story switches to that of brothers Chance and Hart McAllister who leave their Kansas home behind at the death of their parents and head west to Colorado where they meet gunman Ford Jameson and miner Bandana McBain. Bandana takes the boys in as partners digging for silver in the mountains surrounding Oro City (soon to be Leadville when the silver boom hits), and on the way home to their mountain cabin Chance spots a bit of red cloth and a banjo sticking out of the snow and a near-frozen Fancy is rescued in the nick of time. Fancy spends the winter snowbound with the boys and stays the summer working the mine with them, as both brothers fall in love with the beauteous Fancy -- but she can only chose one -- will it be the reckless, gambling, womanizing live on the seat of your pants Chance or the steadfast and faithful Hart?

Desperate not to come between the brothers and longing to establish herself as an actress Fancy leaves the boys and after a wild auction to raise money for her grub stake she heads for New York City. Once there, she struggles to support herself and her daughter, and eventually accepts an offer she can't refuse from ruthless businessman Jason Madigan. Fancy's travels finally bring her back to Leadville and the McAllister brothers, now rich from their silver mine, but she can only marry one of the two brothers and a heart broken Jason begins his plot to bankrupt the man who took Fancy from him.

Well that's about all of the story I'm going to tell, there's a whole lot more to Fancy's tale in this 800 page paperback that kept me reading well into the wee hours. The story of Fancy and the McAllister brothers takes the reader through heartache, treachery, great wealth, financial disaster, and more until it finally culminates in a daring escape from a remote insane asylum in the Rocky Mountains along with a delightful sting to catch the baddies who done Fancy wrong worthy of Newman and Redford.

All in all a near perfect read and a jolly good yarn, my only quibbles are that I did find some of the secondary characters to be a bit stereotyped -- the Madam with the heart of Gold, Ford the gunslinger, Wu the Chinaman, the circus folks -- along with a few bits of language that didn't quite seem to fit the period. If you're willing to set those minor issues aside and want to sit back and lose yourself in the past with a big sprawling epic of soap opera proportions set in the old west, this is one book well worth looking in to. 4.5/5 stars.


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Paint the Wind Cathy Cash Spellman 9780440208136 Books Reviews

Good plot, strong characters, and page turner, excellent. I couldn't put it down!!
This book was so fantastically heart wrenchingly upliftingly great! The twists and turns and ups and downs were perfectly timed. It was really several stories that Ms Spellman tied together beautifully. The only thing we need now is a movie. I beg you all not to miss out on this jewel of an epic saga.
I don't know how this book found me...but it did. I was five pages in when I knew this was a book of epic proportions. I read the entire novel within a few days. Along the way I laughed, cried, and felt every emotion possible for the very vivid characters that exist within the pages.

If you are looking for a saga, a long sweeping story that takes you through years and years of adventure and life, this is a book for you.

Fancy, the main character is one of my favorites. She is right up there with Anne Shirley and that is saying something. She is fierce and free spirited, just the kind of heroine readers like to follow along with. And the men in her life...well, there is never a dull moment )

This is the kind of story that stays with you. Read it.
My favorite book and I'm rediscovering it 20 years later. If you liked Gone with The Wind then you'll love this one even more!!
I absolutely love this book. I have checked this book out from the local library so many times that when someone donated a newer copy they called me up and gave me the older copy they had. After they gave it to me I told someone about the book and let them borrow it thinking they would take care of it because of how much I loved it, well I was wrong. The book was put in their basement and their pipes broke the book was destroyed, so that brought me to finding a new copy that will not get loaned out. There are parts in this book that had me crying so hard I had to take a break for a couple of hours and when I did start reading again I started crying all over again. It is a wonderful story about some very unique characters. I'm actually reading it again for the 8th time.
Love, love, love this journey. I first read this book fifteen years ago and it stayed with me and kept calling me back to it. I found the version and fell in love again. The only complaint about this version is -- it was obviously scanned to digital format and has not been completely edited to the proper words. Words like "corner" and "turn" show as "comer" and "tum" -- such an annoying mistake. Otherwise, overlooking those obvious typos, one can really enjoy this venture into the old west and the lore of yesterday.
This is my favorite novel. Not just of Cathy's work, but my all time favorite story. The story of Fancy is many things.
It would take a plethora of descriptive adjectives to come close to describing her adventures in life. From the very beginning of the book you will be captivated, enthralled, anxious, happy, concerned but always moved. There are so many characters to fall in love with in this story. The story is magnificent, but Cathy's ability too make every single character unique in showcasing who and what they are is extraordinary.
What fun and darn near unputdownable! Paint the Wind begins as ten year old Fancy Deverell's parents are murdered and their Louisiana plantation burned by marauding Yankee soldiers. Loyal slave Atticus saves Fancy from the destruction and with no other family left he takes Fancy along as they head west for a better life. After being on the road for a couple of years they meet up with a motley group of misfits in a circus run by Wes Jarvis and the spooky gypsy Magda. After several years on the road the circus disbands and Fancy and Atticus once again head west, but Atticus's health fails them in the Mosquito Mountains of Colorado and Fancy is left on her own as a deadly snow storm hits and she takes a tumble down a mountain side.....

Meanwhile the story switches to that of brothers Chance and Hart McAllister who leave their Kansas home behind at the death of their parents and head west to Colorado where they meet gunman Ford Jameson and miner Bandana McBain. Bandana takes the boys in as partners digging for silver in the mountains surrounding Oro City (soon to be Leadville when the silver boom hits), and on the way home to their mountain cabin Chance spots a bit of red cloth and a banjo sticking out of the snow and a near-frozen Fancy is rescued in the nick of time. Fancy spends the winter snowbound with the boys and stays the summer working the mine with them, as both brothers fall in love with the beauteous Fancy -- but she can only chose one -- will it be the reckless, gambling, womanizing live on the seat of your pants Chance or the steadfast and faithful Hart?

Desperate not to come between the brothers and longing to establish herself as an actress Fancy leaves the boys and after a wild auction to raise money for her grub stake she heads for New York City. Once there, she struggles to support herself and her daughter, and eventually accepts an offer she can't refuse from ruthless businessman Jason Madigan. Fancy's travels finally bring her back to Leadville and the McAllister brothers, now rich from their silver mine, but she can only marry one of the two brothers and a heart broken Jason begins his plot to bankrupt the man who took Fancy from him.

Well that's about all of the story I'm going to tell, there's a whole lot more to Fancy's tale in this 800 page paperback that kept me reading well into the wee hours. The story of Fancy and the McAllister brothers takes the reader through heartache, treachery, great wealth, financial disaster, and more until it finally culminates in a daring escape from a remote insane asylum in the Rocky Mountains along with a delightful sting to catch the baddies who done Fancy wrong worthy of Newman and Redford.

All in all a near perfect read and a jolly good yarn, my only quibbles are that I did find some of the secondary characters to be a bit stereotyped -- the Madam with the heart of Gold, Ford the gunslinger, Wu the Chinaman, the circus folks -- along with a few bits of language that didn't quite seem to fit the period. If you're willing to set those minor issues aside and want to sit back and lose yourself in the past with a big sprawling epic of soap opera proportions set in the old west, this is one book well worth looking in to. 4.5/5 stars.