An
untold tale of Native Americans coming East to take back their sacred
lands in 1832. From part of the tribe’s ancient treasure, they have
gold to purchase the land.
President
Andrew Jackson's new Indian Removal Act is in force and Indians
are being driven west of the Mississippi River. Oddly, however,
this tribe of Chattanock are being told they can return east by
the President's staff. Returning is Shadow Dancer, who is the twin
of Shaun McCairn, a young boy struggling to grow into a man in Fair
Hope Valley in Western Pennsylvania. Separated while very young,
neither brother is aware the other is alive because a flood swept
one away when the Chattanock first exited their valley fifteen years
earlier. Now, almost daily, one must suffer the scorn of the father
after being blamed for the brother's death. The other has no memory
of a White Skin brother.
White
Skins lay claim to the Pennsylvania valley and are not willing to
give up land where some of their own families are now buried. However,
someone connected to President Jackson's office has sanctioned the
return and ordered the settlers off the land. In charge of the exchange
is an Indian hating cavalry general who teams up with Damon Justice,
a known Indian Fighter. Once the Chattanock's gold is lost, war
appears the only remaining option.
Could the Chattanock's return have
something to do with the fact that Jackson is seeking a second term
as president?
Then why has a Cavalry General, who is known to be an Indian hater, been selected to oversee
the transaction?
The McCairn family lost a son to the Indians
fifteen years earlier. Could they now lose the remaining son and
daughter?
Damon Justice is out to get the remaining
ancient Chattanock treasure which he is sure lies somewhere in Fair
Hope Valley.
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The
Lost Journey
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The
settlers of Fair Hope Valley disperse. The McCairn family is among
those who point their wagons toward Oregon. They look to a new start
elsewhere. One son, Shaun, stays behind to be among the Chattanock
tribe . . . and be near Moon Dust. Because of her circumstances, Moon
Dust feels a closeness to the memory of Shadow Dancer and cannot attend
to Shaun.
A captive Cherokee woman, Singing Flower, escapes
from Man-Who-Stalks-Until-The-Kill, a Tuscarora chief who was
among those attacking the settlers in Fair Hope Valley. Singing
Flower finds a young warrior on the trial. The warrior has sustained
a head injury and does not know his identity. The two begin
a courseless journey, one escaping who she has been the other seeking
to escape his maddening obscurity.
After losing their means for making a new start,
the McCairns soon find themselves running from the law, John McCairn
near death, and Priscilla and her daughter, Rebecca, driving their
wagon toward what they hope is Texas.
Now, the couple escaping
from the relentless Man Stalker are on a confused, lost journey.
The McCairn's desperate journey is more away from than toward. Shaun
McCairn is left wandering around The Valley of Circling Waters where
a war minded Chief rules. Moon Dust soon faces a personal journey
inward to resolve a conflict in which her peaceful nature comes up
against a crises facing her people.
Will the entire McCairn family make it to Texas
with Priscilla and her daughter,
Rebecca, driving the team of horses in their one wagon caravan?
Will
Wounded Warrior and his new companion escape the relentlessly pursing
Man Stalker? Why does fate put them on a collision course with
the McCairns?
What
turn of fortune awaits the Chattanock in their valley with warlike,
Chief Young Horse in command? If called upon, could the
daughter of a chief rule the tribe and keep them out of harm's way?
Marshall Winchester, the son of
a popular U.S. Senator,was born deaf but has had a cochlear implant
since the earliest time one could be implanted. His father, Franklin,
grooms Marshall for the Presidency, trying all the while to conceal
Marshall's deafness. Franklin reasons the public just would
not accept a deaf president.
Franklin struggles to conceal a dark secret from the
public. Since his wife was unable to conceive a child, he attempted
to acquire a son through devious but not illegal means. Franklin
finds out too late the baby was abducted. Now he is trapped
into trying to forever conceal the boy's identity.
Marissa, deaf since birth, grows up in the
deaf culture with her parents. Through what she believes is
very fortunate circumstances, Marissa attends and graduates from Harvard
University then comes into Marshall's life as he embarks on his pursuit
of the Presidency. The
relationship is conflicted with Marshall's attention to his campaign
and a mysterious reservation on both their parts.
Devlin
Drummond, a former Deputy Director of the CIA, learns of the implant
and masterminds a scheme to use 2015 technology to control Marshall
through the implant. Drummond sees to it that he becomes Marshall's
Vice President. Now, he has the means to become the most powerful
person in the world.
The
Journey Into Self project is reminiscent of Hugh Prather’s published
work on Notes to Myself. The present
book of thoughts is a pathway leading to self-exploration but it is
a journey into self-understanding. However, this self-understanding
is not a place where the real you can stop and reside for the days
to come because you cannot stay at a place that has no real boundaries.
Thus begins the adventure that is a sojourn from where you are and
from which the "you" that is now reading this will never
return.
Each time as
I searched within myself for the pathway to this self-understanding
and explored what I found there, I was guided by two questions:
(1) "Could
these same feelings, thoughts, and experiences be something others
have wondered about also?
(2) Could
someone else explore with me these kinds of things and at the same
time find their own answers to puzzling questions that are only half
asked?"
A third
question was born out of the union of the first two. That question
became, "Can we, together, touch our secret feelings and commitments
as the journey to self-exploration wanders through such pristine,
almost virgin parts of us?"
Come
with me, join me in this journey as we put words to our subtle feelings,
intense feelings, puzzling feelings. Take the words or thoughts you
might find here and use them as a key to unlock captured, almost hidden,
parts of you that you may have been uncomfortable with, that you may
have been unaware of before, or parts at which you have even feared
to look. Take an attitude of "it is just you and me now,"
together, sharing words, maybe thoughts, possibly even feelings.
There
is extensive use of the "I" in this book. Where it is possible,
substitute your own "I" for the "I" you find here.
You will be able to hear the message just a little more clearly that
way.
It is
my hope that understanding oneself is always an exciting journey fueled
by the furor of searching and the delightful "finds" from
exploring within. The journey to self-understanding is always the
most enigmatical of mysteries that forever goes unsolved, and we are
happy that it is so.
This book is
written in a style of brief thoughts on short lines. This is not a
book of poetry, unless life itself is the greatest poem of all that
is written by our thoughts and emotions or memories which we have
fully forgotten, only to be thought again with a warm aura that causes
us to wish to draw up such pleasant things and visit them time and
again through such magical verse.
One problem
of this journey is that most of us do not have a guide to lead us
through such uncharted parts of ourselves. It is my fondest hope that
in some way the words you find here will help you begin to touch and
release into a new freedom much of the real you that languishes somewhere
within so unfulfilled, so incomplete. In any case, remember what you
do find here can only be a beginning, not a conclusion to a thorough
search and exploration of who you really are. Accept this as a beginning
of your journey and you will find the excitement of the hunt goes
on and on. Your "finds" will give you years of quite pleasure
in your firefly evenings and fresh dewed mornings.