Title Homesteading along the Mormon Trail Author F. Eugene Barber Synopsis This is a detailed story of hardships the young teenage couple encountered as they headed West to settle a new land. There is excitement in their close encounters with the various Amerindians they meet along way West - and the Indian friends the made. And romance as the two teenagers fall in love along the trail. Conscripted by the US Army, Young Caleb returns from the Mexican War with a small sack of golden Pesos; enough coins to start their successful ranch in Central Kansas. Biography F. Eugene Barber has written several short stories, but this is his first novel. Mr. Barber has an A.S. in engineering, a B.A. in history, and an MBA. He was born on a small share crop farm in the Midwest at the start of the Great Depression and attended his first year of school in a rural school with eleven other students ranging from the first grade to the eighth. His early farm life was pot bellied stoves, coal oil lamps, chopping kindling wood, and chores around the barn and chicken yards. He lived for a short time in western Wyoming near the old Oregon Trail where his father worked on the Union Pacific Rail Road. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War and upon discharge worked in the California Aerospace industry for most of his career. He spent many weekends traipsing around the California Deserts with his wife, two daughters, and the family dog. Mr. Barber has traveled extensively all over the world, including South Africa and the Outback in Australia, and when in a conversation, he tends to compare his own ancestor's struggles in settling the West with their struggles to explore and populate those two faraway countries. His knowledge of early emigrant movements from the more settled parts of the United States to the Great American Desert and to the Oregon country far beyond the Shining Mountains has been accumulated over a period of forty years.

Book Details Price: $15.49 ISBN: 9781425911133 Dimensions: 5 x 8 Pages: 288 Quantity: