ISBN: 0061007706
Godina izdanja: 1994
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Douglas C. Jones - This Savage Race
Harpercollins, 1994
491 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

In 1808 Boone Fawley hit upon the idea that there was more to life than St. Louis, Missouri. Spurred on by tales of land ownership on a frontier flowing with milk and honey, he lit out for the territories. Not west into the Plains or the Rocky Mountains, like most men of his time, but south, into the hardwood jungles of Arkansas. Boone set out for adventure, prosperity, and a new life, accompanied by his sons, John and Questor (who - he hated to admit - both had more smarts than he did); Molly, his all-too-handy-with-a-rifle wife; and Chorine, his temperamental old-maid sister (already approaching the ripe age of twenty-seven). Had he known what lay ahead of him, he probably would have stayed put. As master storyteller Douglas C. Jones depicts the Fawley family`s trek from St. Louis to Point of Rocks, Arkansas, and finally into the untamed wilderness of the Ozarks, he rekindles the pioneer spirit that led men and women into the very heart of a new continent. Although their names aren`t etched on brass plaques or buried in time capsules, pray-we-don`t-get-cholera common people like the Fawleys played an integral and memorable part in the settling of America. They were right there with all the frontier heroes - rifles at their sides, fearing for their lives.