Ken Lord

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Produktbeschreibung

Teenagers Bradley Featherstone and Ida Mae McLeod are in love... or so it seems. Ida's father, Angus, has vetoed the marriage until his daughter is older.

Bradley faces the draft for the Civil War when his father Henry decides to take Homestead Act land in Oregon. They leave Ohio by canal boat and embark upon a long journey across the country by river and by landwithout Ida Mae.

Rufus Lindsay is also interested in Ida Mae but waits until Bradley is out of the picture to pop the question. But Rufus has a second interest. So does his mother. Both involve Albert Bartlett, the banker.

Sarah Pearson, the "Whispering Wind of Massillon" is busy collecting stories and seeing that the appropriate people are hearing them. But she doesn't know that someone on the boat has offered to marry Bradley. Or that Bradley has been shanghaied into the Union Army. Or that the Featherstone family has missed the boat that will take them west to the departure point of the wagon train.

Both experience some extraordinary things before they meet again... and when they meet.... Well, let's just say it doesn't quite happen the way you'd expect.

This is a mid-19th century story of love denied, ambition, deception, war, intrigue, accomplishment, and a twist you didn't see coming.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ken Lord
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230516989
• Artikelnr.: 72555497

Autorenporträt

Ken Lord is a born-again Christian, an octogenarian, a husband to Mary, and a father to Timothy. He's retired, as you might imagine, and spends his spare time writingfor himself and others (it's called ghostwriting).

He's a USAF veteran who has served in Japan and has been in every state in these United States. Also Australia, Mexico, and Canada. He traveled around the Pacific as a serviceman and later as a computer systems consultant.

He spent years of involvement with computers and is the author of a landmark series about microcomputers which, when they were needed, were spot-on but today are a part of ancient history.

He was an instructor for the Air Force and in various businesses. He was an adjunct professor for several colleges, most recently the Oregon Institute of Technology.

He holds:

ABA (Data Processing) and BSBA (Business) degrees from U-Mass, Lowell.

EdM (Education) from Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Doctoral credits from the University of Arizona, Tucson.

He spent 17 years as a very successful Avon representative ("The cutest Avon "lady" in Tucson, Arizona") where he built a very large business. On his website (www.kenlordbooks.com) you'll find books that he's written about that, too.

Today, in the twilight of his life, he plays the piano and sings at a Baptist church in Whiteville, NC, spends parts of three days a week in dialysis, and writes to legacy.