John Rose Putnam

The River of Corn (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1540, Hernando de Soto and 600 Spanish conquistadors crossed the Savannah River into what is now South Carolina and thus entered the empire of the Chicora, the largest and most powerful Native American Civilization in the Southeast. Modern archaeologists have yet to find any trace of that once vibrant society. Although now considered a lost civilization, when the Spanish arrived, the Chicora were led by a beautiful queen and had a magnificent temple filled with the remains of their honored ancestors. Did Hernando de Soto, a ruthless conquistador with a lust for gold, bring about their downfall?

'THE RIVER OF CORN' is a powerful tale of the destruction of these American Indians told by an experienced South Carolina fiction writer who spent his youth in the locales he writes about, places that match the Spanish accounts almost exactly. Who were the Chicora? What really happened to them?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outlaws Publishing LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227992512
• Artikelnr.: 72412016

Autorenporträt

John came west as a young man and settled in Berkeley where he graduated from the University of California. He still lives and writes there and often gives a talk on the California gold rush to the gang at the Freight and Salvage.

He spent a lot of time digging into that gold rush too and many of his stories take place back then. John's characters are so real they'll jump right off the page and talk to you; his villains have hearts as cold as midnight and his heroes almost always do the right thing in the end.