For Immediate Release: Aug. 27, 2013 Contact: Marilyn Bay Wentz, author of Prairie Grace marilyn.wentz@tds.net  303-594-3827-cell   www.MarilynBayWentz.com Prairie Grace Depicts Events Leading up to Sand Creek Massacre Colorado Native’s Researched Fictional Account Will Educate and Entertain STRASBURG, COLO.—In Prairie Grace, the clash of white and Native cultures in 1864 Colorado Territory is told through the eyes of throw-caution-to-the wind frontierswoman Georgia MacBaye and Cheyenne brave Gray Wolf, who is cast into the white world when his uncle, Chief Lean Bear, seeks help for him from Georgia’s mother, a well-known “healer.” When Lean Bear (actual historic figure) returns nearly a year later to retrieve his nephew, he explains that he was delayed by a trip to Washington, D.C., where he and other Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs met the Great White Father (President Abraham Lincoln), a documented event. “Prairie Grace demonstrates the worst and the best of humanity,” said debut…