Arthur Hamilton

Jonathan's Journey (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Born the second son of a woman farmer, south of Salem, North Carolina, young Jonathan Henry Hamilton strikes out on his own in 1835, and becomes an overseer on a large slave Plantation. His actions and rapport with others, especially his gang of Bounders, as the slaves were called on the Bethania Plantation, made him very popular, particularly with the daughter of the plantations owner. With His bride, and four bounders, who he frees, Jonathan strikes out for the territory, and soon to be state of Arkansas, and an arsenal of adventure, including the helping of a group of Eastern Cherokee from Georgia, who had escaped the Trail of Tears and taken refuge in the Great Smoky Mountains after the discovery of the gold on their homelands had caused them to be chased out of Georgia by the greed of the whites and US President Andrew Jackson. Jons reward for this help was enough gold to purchase all the lands, manpower, materials and even little town on the Saint Francis river in Northeast Arkansas to build a rice empire. The struggles of Empire building finally start paying off and Jonathans family and Moses landing ark begins to prosper. But, there is trouble on the horizon! The issue of slavery causes problems in all the western states and Arkansas orders all free Negroes to leave, including the now 100 plus working the crops at Moses landing. Soon the civil war breaks out, and Jonathans oldest gains the union army in Saint Louis. While his second son and son-in-law join the confederatecy. At least one encounter in Missouri, pitting his sons against each other along with the absence of news of their whereabouts, only add to the stress Jon faces, trying to get his crops to market down the Mississippi to New Orleans, through a gauntlet of gunboats and emplacements. If all climates hen union gunboats and troops ascend the Saint Francis river to do battle with the Empire of Jonathan Henry Hamilton.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 808
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781499068931
• Artikelnr.: 54007360

Autorenporträt

Born on his mother's family homestead in North Dakota, during the Great Depression, three straight crop failures brought Hamiltons by the score, west to Eatonville, Washington where Arthur (Pat) has called home for over seventy years. After "short careers" in building homes, logging, lumber mills, Air Force, real estate, insurance, laminated wood beans, and wholesale drugs, it was time to retire and find other activities. Art wrote poetry, then short stories, and finally decided to try writing a novel. Walla! "Jonathan's Journey"