Dwight W. Hunter

Mei Ling (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Little is written about the contribution Chinese men and women made in building frontier America. One of their major achievements was servings as laborers to build the Central Pacific Railroad tracks across the rugged Sierra Mountains in California. Chinese men became miners and extracted a major portion of gold recovered during northwestern gold rushes.
Mei Ling's story was inspired by a Chinese woman of the same era and region of Idaho known by her married name, Polly Beamis, whose story is told in a biography, Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthann Lum McCunn and a follow on movie, by the same name.
In this book Mei Ling is sold by her father to an itinerate buyer of girls, animals and fouls. She was resold to a broker and then to a retailer specializing in attractive girls who trained them to become high-class courtesans.
A young self-trained doctor, in Hong Kong, began experimenting with whiskey he hoped would prevent flesh decomposition. He discovered fresh flesh bathed in whiskey didn't decay. Raising his work a notch, he irrigated live open wounds with whiskey and found most healed without filling with pus. The doctor enjoyed a reputation for healing wounds and attracted the attention of brothel owners requesting him to perform abortions on their pregnant workers.
Studying a copy of Gray's Anatomy, the young doctor deduced that if a female's fallopian tubes were severed she would be rendered sterile. With a plentiful supply of female cadavers available for experimentation, he developed a procedure and special tools to perform tubule ligations. Using whiskey to prevent infection and opium as an anesthetic, the procedure could be performed safely and without the patient flinching or moving, along with minimal pain... Mei Ling became the first woman to receive the young doctor's new procedure.
Following recovery, Mei Ling was sold to a prominent merchant and taught to speak English, then put to work entertaining British and American sea captains and merchants visiting Hong Kong.
Lur, captain of the lumber schooner North Star, became infatuated by Mei Ling and brought her to America where she quickly found herself alone. During her trip up the Columbia River she executed three corrupt countrymen and shot a former shipmate ready to shoot a friend.
Arriving in Lewiston, Idaho Territory, Mei Ling became the cook and extra gun, riding atop a fastidious she-mule called Sara, in a packstring bound for a mountain gold town known as Florence. A year later gold in Florence petered out and Mei Ling was offered an opportunity to become a plank owner, as manager of a general store, in the yet to be established town of Oro Grande.
The Oro Grande general store proved a success and Mei Ling became wealthy through later sale of her business. She moved to Lewiston, cared for her friend, Francine, and later relocated to San Francisco.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dwight W. Hunter
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301559145
• Artikelnr.: 70681457

Autorenporträt

I was born and reared on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Northern Idaho, graduated from Nezperce High school in the class of '50, spent a four-year tour of duty in the Navy which took me to California, Tennessee, Japan and Alaska. After leaving the Navy I received a B.S. Degree in Engineering from Indiana Institute of Technology at Fort Wayne, Indiana and subsequently spent thirty years in the Aerospace industry and private business
Shifting careers in 1986 I received an A.S. Degree from the Allied Health Department of Mission College at Santa Clara, California, followed by ten years as a Psych Nurse with the California Department of Developmental Services.
Soon after retirement I revisited Idaho, to keep a blind date with Mary, who subsequently became my life partner. We pooled our money, bought a used van and RV trailer and became RV'ers.
One day, while enjoying the sun and sea at Morro Bay, CA State Park, I made a comment that someone should write bodice ripper romance novels about retired senior citizens. Mary replied with a question. Why don't you? In answer to her question I authored my first novel about a strong-willed retired lady and a less then bright snowbird cowboy.
Like most nascent writers, following the birth of my first book I self published and quickly discovered potential readers were not scrambling to purchase this newly minted masterpiece. Setting aside my dreams for instant fame, I continued to write for my own amusement.
In six following novels I shifted time frames to the post-Civil War era and younger women protagonists. To date I have written seven titles in the Sisters of Destiny Series. Members in this fictional sisterhood possess a common gene, giving them the chutzpa to out think, out shoot and out maneuver ego driven men thoughtless enough to stand in their way.
After completing my seventh novel I learned about e-books and a friend offered to create a web site to market my books in their original print format. Unfortunately she died unexpectedly and the web site project suffered a still-birth.
A couple of years later I heard about Smashwords and quickly learned my initial attempt at website marketing books, in their print format, was not the way to bring books to market.
Mary and I have given up full time RV'ing and settled down in the quasi frontier town of Pahrump, NV. Since becoming domesticated, I have devoted a major portion of my time to converting books into Smashwords forma...