Gunpowder for the General - Bartholomew, Kenneth
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Four young men band together from childhood to forge an unbreakable team in this stirring historical novel. They set out to make and deliver black powder to General Washington's crippled Continental Army before the campaigning season of 1778. Beset by loyalists, outlaws, bears, winter snows, and redcoats, they fight their way through the wilderness of western Pennsylvania and back to deliver four wagon loads of gunpowder at the start of the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse. Their magical concoction helps to turn the battle and force the British from the field. The four men in their early twenties…mehr

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Four young men band together from childhood to forge an unbreakable team in this stirring historical novel. They set out to make and deliver black powder to General Washington's crippled Continental Army before the campaigning season of 1778. Beset by loyalists, outlaws, bears, winter snows, and redcoats, they fight their way through the wilderness of western Pennsylvania and back to deliver four wagon loads of gunpowder at the start of the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse. Their magical concoction helps to turn the battle and force the British from the field. The four men in their early twenties - an Irish Catholic, a Native American, a free Black, and a Chinese lad whose father taught them the secrets of making gunpowder - prove that friendship and loyalty can overpower racial prejudice and bias.
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Autorenporträt
Ken Bartholomew is a family physician and graduate of the University of Utah College of Medicine. An associate professor of clinical medicine, Dr. B has taught medical students from the University of South Dakota for forty-six years, along with students in nursing, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant programs. An accomplished climber, kayaker, diver, marksman, and archer, he has explored the wilderness in search of adventure. Staring a grizzly down at ten yards or cutting his way out of a logjam while rafting the icy waters of the Alaska wilderness brought him a new level of adrenaline rush. With over two thousand hours of flight time, he is also a seasoned instrument-rated pilot and has "dead stick" landed his airplane on a single-lane dirt trail after the engine blew. Dr. B has taught outdoor survival skills for years, and his record for fire starting with flint and steel is eight seconds. He loves to teach the next generations that if you can survive in the wilderness, you can surely survive in a leather-upholstered society.