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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...

Follow Thomas McAllen and his family from Edinburg, Scotland across the cold Atlantic in 1743 to follow other immigrants who were drawn to freedom, and to have their own land in upstate New York in the settlement of Cherry Valley. Few settlers ventured into this region that was still a wilderness and where the French and the British were flexing their muscle to control. Little did the McAllen's know of the power struggle that was happening in the Mohawk Valley and west to Oswego, and soon would erupt into a war. But here, in Cherry Valley they would not run from a war that may come into ...

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. ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

The life and times of the Scottish Highlanders during the American Revolution on the Cape Fear River, in North Carolina.

After 'The Carrying Place, German Flats 1750-1794 was published, I had thoughts of a second book of the families from my first book. As many of my published books, they to continue to the next generation. This continuations of the two families that were still in this once wilderness and along the Mohawk River was now seeing and being involved in so many historical times from 1794-1825. With two major wars behind them, they see the future of the Mohawk River, and a strong family relationship that only grows stronger from one generation to the next. The sudden and powerful growth does not ...

The Carrying Place located near The Mohawk River known as German Flats in upstate New York was first settled in 1723 by German Palatines. In 1750, Joshua Judd just eighteen was forced to kill his first Huron Indian after they killed his mother and father at his home far into the hills above German Flats. Alone, he traveled the ridge tops to reach German Flats, but little did he know, the killing would continue as he came across another lone cabin where two more settlers were brutality killed and scalped. Here he would find one survivor, Carrie Dunlop, who was his same age, and she too was ...

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 ...

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...

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-...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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 ...