"Out of the Jungle" is about a serviceman who experienced events in Vietnam that affected him for the next 25 plus years.
Publication Date: May 18, 2014
Kentucky Memories is a volume of regional poetry about people and circumstances in southeastern Kentucky.
Publication Date: May 19, 2014
Ambush at the Blue Licksdeals withThe Battle of Blue Licks, called by some the last battle of the American Revolution. It occurred ten months after Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. The battle and subsequent engagements between Kentuckians and British led Indians are to some a clear indication that the British wished to stop the expansion of the new United States east of the Allegheny Mountains. Fighting against the wealth and influence of scalp-buying British leaders, the Kentuckians refused to give up.
Publication Date: May 18, 2014
The Bloody Sevens Settlers on the Kentucky frontier resist Indian attacks fomented by the might and wealth of the and the British Empire. Hugh Mason and Jacob Hensley. his mentor, help Benjamin Logan hold his fort in Kentucky.
Publication Date: August 23, 2014
The Sword of Gideon It was the dream again. A dream I had experienced so many times that it should be an old friend. Sometimes, I regard the familiarity of the dream as at least an old acquaintance. The dream always starts out the same, I am in a jungle. A jungle that is both dark and colorful. I am usually dressed in jungle fatigues and armed with an M-16. Sometimes I am in the jungle naked and unarmed. In this sequel to Out of the Jungle, Gideon battles criminals, crooked lawmen and PTSD
Publication Date: June 3, 2014
Listening to Night Winds A volume of poetry rooted in the mountains of Kentucky and transplanted in different parts of the world. Poetry that tells of Kentucky's history, Kentucky's people, and how a mountain boy experienced or viewed life away from the beautiful Kentucky mountains.
Publication Date: June 4, 2014
The Life and Times of Ralph Marcum is a mixture of articles by Ralph W. Marcum, Essays by Charles E. Hayes, letters and other writings of early Kentucky Pioneers and interviews by John Dabney Shane with early Kentucky pioneers and settlers.
Publication Date: October 18, 2014
Boonesborough Attackis the story of fictional characters Samuel and Patsy Walter, who play roles with Daniel Boone and Richard Callaway in the defense of Boonesborough in 1778.
Publication Date: October 4, 2014
The LonghunterBefore Kit Carson. Before Jedidiah Smith and before Jim Bridger trapped, hunted and explored, the example had been set for them. Men like Elisha Walden, William Blevins, Daniel Boone and Donald Warren left the safety and comfort of settled areas to hunt, trap and explore the land west of the Appalachian Mountains. These half-horse, half-alligator men braved nature and Indians and helped open up Kentucky and Tennessee for settlement.
Publication Date: March 29, 2015
Kentucky Tales from the Old Man The Kentucky Mountains have always been rich in characters ad their adventures.
Before our lives were cluttered up by radios, televisions, the Internet a facebook we listened to tales told by our grandfathers and uncles.
Sometimes we learned these tales while sitting on the front porch of a store while sitting on a sack of feed.
Publication Date: May 17, 2015
Blood Debt
Over thirty years after the end of the American Revolution, the British still did not respect Americans and many who had suffered from Indian raids led or paid for by the British still wanted the British to pay a blood debt. They collected at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815 to collect a Blood Debt from the British.
Publication Date: August 22, 2015
Blood on King’s Mountain
Volunteers and militia take on the might of the British Empire in a battle on October 7, 1780 that changed the American revolution.
Publication Date: November 16, 2015
The War Trail
The American Patriots continue down the War Trail to Victory they began at the Battle of Kings Mountain to the Battle against bloody Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of the Cowpens.
After the Battle of the Cowpens, General Greene races Cornwallis to keep a river between the American Army and the British Army until the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Dan and Nate Bowman continue to spy for Greene and fight for liberty.
Paperback: 172 pages Published September 12, 2016 ISBN-10: 1530715016 ISBN-13: 978-1530715015
Victory
Cornwallis leaves the Carolinas for Virginia and the fate of the British at the Battle of Yorktown. Daniel Bowman continues fighting the British through the Victory at Yorktown.
Along the path that led to the Battle of Fallen Timbers, both sides made attacks and mistakes.
Wolves in the Cedars
In the bloody maelstrom that was the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier after the battle at the Monongahela, British subjects in the American colonies began to transform into free Americans. The war and the frontier were bloody. The British were arrogant. The French and Indians were deadly. An indentured servant escapes the fire of his indenture into the hell of the French and Indian War. During this time of danger and peril, he becomes more American than British in both thought and attitude. He learns that life and freedom should be one and the same.
Reverend Virgil Pinkney’s Frontier Interviews
There are many ways that we discover what happened when the USA was just beginning. There are government and military documents. We can also use journals and Diaries. Letters written by the people who lived the experience are valuable. Another source, we are fortunate to have, is the John Dabney Shane Interviews. Many of the facts we know about the Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Ohio frontier came from interviews with the people who had been there. John Dabney Shane, a circuit riding Methodist minister is responsible for much that we know. The Reverend Virgil Pinkney is patterned after John Dabney Shane.
NICKAJACK ATTACK
The struggle for peace in Tennessee continued for twenty years. Ordinary people were called on to do the extraordinary. Larger than life personalities like John Sevier and James Robertson were necessary to settle the new country. Hardships and heroes, blood and sweat, and strong personalities carried Tennessee to Statehood.
Hell Frozen Over Victory at Trenton
The icy river was rising up. Icy sleet was coming down. The British thought they had won. “No,” said George Washington.
Old Glory flies over us today. But things weren’t always that way. The British had more men and guns. They thought the war was already won.
“No,” said George Washington.
Waking the Wilderness: Taming the Early Frontier
A story of Kentucky from the first settlement to the religious revival of the second great awakening and the people who did it.
RIDING A WHIRLWIND The Battle of Princeton
Winning the Battle of Trenton wasn't enough! To bolster support for the Continental Army before enlistments ended, General George Washington had to strike again. Patriots like Ben Patton helped it happen.
HOT and BLOODY The Battle of Monmouth
After victories at Trenton and Princeton, the Continental Army continues to resist the British army's might. Washington fought both the British and intrigue within the Continental army and the Continental congress. Against all odds and after defeats at Brandywine, Paoli and Germantown, the Continentals become a trained army at Valley Forge and advance to battle the British at Monmouth Courthouse.
THE ROAD TO VALLEY FORGE
After victories at Trenton and Princeton, Washington's army kept fighting. With a new army, most of it inexperienced and untrained, Washington continues the fight. Skirmishes and battles continue until the British capture Philadelphia and Washington moves his army toward the winter encampment at Valley Forge.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Tommy and Jimmy Make Soap: A Story of Early Kentucky (Children in Early Kentucky) (Volume 1) Paperback – Large Print, May 30, 2015
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