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Murder, pirates, slavery, and more! Robert Flint and Joshua Wells return in the sequel to Trail of Broken Chains. Robert and Joshus, along with their friends, Adam, an ex-slave, and his Indian wife, Two Moons, have moved West. However, they left behind Lily and James, and Robert loves Lily but has never told her. Now she is married to James, and Robert thinks he has missed an opportunity of a lifetime. But has he? Meanwhile, there are river pirates to fight and women to rescue. Should the group travel into the South once more to free slaves? Or has their notoreity condemned their efforts? ...

Joshua and Daniel who grew up together near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania were taught at an early age to scout, and become marksmen. Their gifted talents were soon to be used as the Civil War has just begun. General Lee's Northern Virginia Army was marching toward Chambersburg, near Joshua and Daniels home. They soon were approached by the Union Captain who was in charge of the many Union Army warehouses in Chambersburg to scout, and gather information of any Confederate Army approaching Pennsylvania. They soon were in enemy territory, and this is their story of those early months of a bloody ...

From 1629 to 1715 on the Sampit River in the Carolina's where there was no North, or South Carolina a small isolated group of free slaves, Creek Indians, and white indentured servants landed, and built a new settlement, and a new way of life where they could be free, and live in peace. Generations later Robert Warden, his son, and their families made a living with trade, and having a naval store for the many merchant ships that were now bringing in new settlers, rich and poor to this new place called Charles Town. In the year 1715 the Yamasee War began, and the many Indian tribes of the ...

Thomas Worden was alone with no living family on the dirty,cold docks in London, England in 1627 hoping to get on any ship that would take him far away from the memories of his mother and father's death, and the tough life they all had. Captain Henry Powell knew of his life, and how he and his father worked for years on the docks, and never had anything. Captain Henry Powell would take Thomas to Barbados to start a new life, to begin a new settlement, but little did they both soon learn that they, and their close friends would be pushed off this island, and have the political turmoil ...

Logan and James Campbell, two cousins who has just seen their folks sail from England to Charleston, South Carolina to begin in a new life in this fast growing harbor in 1792. Logan and James would soon follow, but first they had to earn their way by sailing on a trade ship that in time would be going into Charleston. Little did they know what trade would be carried on this ship called Annabella! The days and weeks passed, and they soon learned what cargo would be put in dark, and dirty lower deck! The hell they would see, and would learn the true dark history of the Annabella, and its crew...

The second book in this series continues of the second generation of Shane Taylor, and his son Weston. Together they and their steamboats, and Shane's ferry which was the first ferry in Hannibal, and St. Louis, Missouri. Together they will make history from 1832 -1865. Weston and the first steam gun boat will become involved in the early days of the Civil War on the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Columbia Rivers, before the Ironclads appear. Their loyalty to the Union cause will help free all the rivers from the Confederate advancement, and control of the Mississippi River.

Since 1792, when the Campbell's first came to the muddy banks on the Santee River in the lowlands of South Carolina with their free Gullah people to build their rice fields, and their Cypress Hill Plantation each generation had to face wars, and men who they had to fight to protect their people, black and white, and to preserve their way of life. Now the fifth generation, Briton, and Charles who survived the bloody Civil War, now must face the chaos, and reconstruction of 1866. The war is over, but the hatred for the freemen was high as ever from the KKK, and the Redeemers who would spread ...

The Civil War is now over, and thousands of soldiers are now heading back to their homes, and families, but not Hunter Wall, and his life long friend Jacob Miller who grew up with Hunter, and fought side by side from the first bloody battle to the last. Now they have no families to go home to, so they decide to head west, or find work from the first offer they get, and decide what they want to do. Their lives quickly change after finding a place to stay in the nearby woods after their last bloody battle not knowing that their last fight was the last battle fought of the war, and no living ...

Dreams can be fulfilled, adventures can be felt, as this is what happened to John Taylor, and his close friend from childhood Samuel Parker when they had a tavern and a dream in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the year of 1810. Their strong desire to be the first men on the Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers with the first steamboat to New Orleans. With some luck, and a man named Elis Frank, a keel-boat owner in Pittsburgh. Together they would feel and see the mouth of the Ohio River merge into the mighty Mississippi River with their steamboat Horizon. The adventure that would follow, was more than ...

Being the fifth generation of Robert Flint, Joshua Wells, and the year 1861 In Montana, John Flint, Robert Flint, and William Wells are still moving west as wagon masters, and guides. The three start a business for settlers wanting to go west on the Oregon Trail. Robert and John, along with William Wells will take the wagons west into the un-known territory, and through mountain passes only they, and their Blackfoot Indian friends knew. They will become well known for their bravery, and warm hearts. They will also be known for their killings they had to do to survive, and build their small ...

Eighteen year has passed since Robert Flint, and Joshua Wells along with their wives, Lily, and Rebecca had three adventurious sons, Frank, and Peter Flint, and Benjamin Wells. Soon they would embark on their dreams that the three had been thinking of while living, and working upon the Missouri, and Mississippi River trading with St. Louis, and New Orleans on their keelboat Halfmoon. The West had exploded from St. Louis up the Mississippi, and down to New Orleans after Lewis and Clark returned from their historica ljourney to the Pacific Ocean. Still the Missouri River was wild, and un-...

Thomas Morrison and his younger brother, John, leave their home in Virginia to explore the land along the mighty Mohawk River. Their travels eventually lead them to Stone Arabia, a village in New York's Mohawk Valley. In awe of ite beauty and with loyality to the settlers. Thomas and John set down their roots in this valley, but their aspiration of a peaceful life by the Mohawk River is not so easily attained. The French and British governments each have designs on the area for their own financial gain. The French forms an alliance with numerous local Indian tribes, and the historic French ...

The Life and Times of Robert Flint the Pioneer is the story of one heroic man's life. Robert's descendent, David Burton Flint, reveals Robert's rise from a meager, immigrant beginnings to a pioneer and hero on the wild and warring early American frontier. A skilled and courageous warrior. Robert fought bravely in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionat War. He saw the glory and the grusomeness of battle and knew the value of family and security. This account of Robert's legendary existence is a saga of the essence of the human experience and the fire of patriotism. It is the...

Halfmoon on the Mississippi Book Two continues the adventures of Robert Flint, and Joshua Wells in the year 1804 along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers just before Lewis and Clark begin their westward exploration. Here Robert and Joshua would plan, and accomplish all that they had dreamed. St. Louis was nothing but a few tents and cabins: the gateway to the West. America would begin here, and so would Lewis and Clark. Robert and Joshua would have adventure after adventure trying to establish the first keelboat service north of New Orleans where the slave trade and the plantations that ...

While writing Keeper of the Waters, and after it was published I always had in my mind to bring Allen Jacob Fox, and his wife Morning Song and their first son Aaron, known as Three Eagles back into a new historical adventure just before the American Revolution began. Aaron being half white, and half Iroquois he was accepted by all the people in the Mohawk Valley, and looked upon as gifted by the Mohawk Indians, and the Iroquois Indians. his life was already planned for the future, but he did not realize this until he and his wife Blue Flower, a beautiful Mohawk Indian who Aaron grew up with...

Book Three is the next generation of the Taylors, and their steamboats that worked the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and now the fourth generation. Jason Taylor and his friend Adam at the age nineteen would fulfill their childhood dreams of going up the Missouri River to Ft. Benton.After the Civil War thousands of men headed west by trails, and soon the steamboat would appear, and the rush was on. Jason and Adam would help build a first of its kind steamboat that could handle the dangerous Missouri River with Jason's and Adams father at their salvage yard across from Hannibal, Missouri. ...

Robert, and John Flint. along with William Wells will take the wagons west into the un-named territory, and over mountain passes only they knew, as well as their close friends the Blackfoot Indians. They will become well known for their bravery, and warm gentle hearts. They will also be known for their killing they had to do to survive, and to build their small town from a wagon shop to a well respected small town near the Missouri River. The three have heard horror stories about the Civil War, and they opened their hearts, and their small town to the good hard working people who came there...

Eighteen years have passed since Robert Flint, and Joshua Wells along with their wives, Lily, and Rebecca had three adventurous sons, frank, and Peter Flint, and Benjamin Wells. Soon they would embark on their dreams that they had been thinking of while living, and working upon the Missouri, and Mississippi River trading with St. Louis, and new Orleans on their keelboat Halfmoon. The west had exploded from St. Louis up the Mississippi, and down to New Orleans after Lewis and Clark returned from their historical journey to the Pacific Ocean. Still the Missouri River was wild, and un-tamed. ...

My latest book, Mist on the Santee Book Two 1850-1866 is a continuation of the Campbell's who settled, and built their rice plantation along the banks of the Santee River. Now the third, and fourth generation will have to face the upcoming Civil War that the knew was coming. How would they protect their beloved Cypress Hill Plantation, and their free Gullah people from the Confederates, and Union armies that will soon surround them, as well as Charleston, South Carolina! Being surrounded by swamps, lowlands, and deep forest, they hope they will not see any enemies marching upon their lands,...

On his first voyage from England to the New World, Allan Jacob Fox had no desire to settle in this faraway land but only work as a ship's hand, and he intended to safely sail back home. A quiet young man who wasn't one to stand out. Allan thought he would in time, marry and settle in one of the busy ports in England. He did not know that his future would be one of adventure, eventually becoming a highly sought after counseler and wise man by many natives from New York's Indian tribes, by one of the high ranking men in the Mohawk Valley, and by hundreds of new settlers who had gradually ...