This is a story of a family who lived in the Arkansas wilderness in the 1850's. The father and son break up an Osage Indian attack on a helpless Wichita Tribe while the men are out hunting buffalo. Because the two white men stopped the attack, the Osage warriors retaliate and take revenge by attacking the settlers cabin, and the mother is killed. The father and his two children escape, and run for their lives as the Osage Warriors are in pursuit. ***** The father is John Morgan with his son Caleb, and beautiful daughter Samantha. ***** As Caleb started to mount, he heard the thundering of horse hoofs behind him. Turning, he saw the other Indian with his bow in hand and the arrow aimed directly at him. The warrior had a menacing grin of satisfaction, as he pointed the arrow directly at Caleb's chest. ***** "Now both of you just smile real nice and talk to them, and Samantha, let them know that you are their queen." Again, John reiterated, "Samantha, these mountain men respect a woman, and if they know you are married, they will respect you and your husband. But if they find out you aren't married, there are some men here who would kill Caleb and I, and take you for themselves." Samantha whispered, "Don't worry Pa, we'll try real hard to make it convincing." ***** The word was out, "There was going to be a wrestling match!" and soon both whites and Indians were running to see the match. Within fifteen minutes, there were well over two hundred men gathered in a half circle. They gawked at the giant of a man. He had taken off his shirt and was flexing his rippling muscles. Everyone was watching to see if the young boy would get killed. They were yelling it was a match between 'David and Goliath.' ***** Caleb walked over and pointed to the wagon box, and said "This box is deeper than the other wagon boxes. He said, "I wonder...." Then he walked over to another wagon and found an ax, then came back to the first wagon and commenced to chop at the box. Soon the bottom gave way, and Caleb reached in. He pulled out a locked carved wooden box. There was no key, so he took his knife blade to pry open the box. As it gave way he found three leather pouches, one was quite large. Caleb handed Samantha the heaviest pouch and asked her to open it. She did so and was surprised to see it was filled with gold coins. The second smaller pouch contained numerous sparkling stones in an assortment of colors. The third pouch contained women's jewelry and a man's pocket watch. He searched the wagon for some identification, but could find nothing. He took the three pouches and put them in his saddle bag, and put the ax in one of the mule packs. Caleb looked around at the dead and said, "We don't dare bury any of these folks because if the Indians come back, they'll know that we've been here. Let's get out of here while we've still got our hair!" ***** This book is clean and wholesome, for LDS, Christian and Family reading. A person can read this book at any age. My youngest reader is a boy 9 years old, and my oldest is a woman who is 103 years old. There are no swearing, or sexual innuendos and when you finish reading you will, want to have a better relationship with your family, neighbors and friends. Have a great read.
About the Author: Terrance M. Cooper, (doc) was raised on a farm in Coopersville, Michigan and drove a team of horses by the time he was nine years old. He enjoyed riding his own horse Cherokee everywhere in the countryside until he joined the Marine Corps in 1959. After he got out of the Marine Corps he spent two and one half years in Samoa as a missionary for his church. He returned to the states and immediately entered college. When he finished college, he entered Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in 1966, and graduated in 1970. In 1970 he went on a blind date and met his wife, Julie Ann. He saw her twice and on the third date he proposed to her, and she accepted. They were married three months later. They have been married forty-seven years, and have six children and thirty grand children and three great-grand children. In the early 1980's Doc visited the Grand Tetons Mountain range and rode his horse over eighty miles in the wilderness. He saw what the Sioux Indians saw and camped in areas where they could have camped, and traveled across the valleys where they would have ridden. He envisioned himself back in those days and was inspired to write his "Jacob Series' which consists of four volumes of excitement, adventure, and a love story of a young man who falls in love with a Sioux Indian maiden. In 1985 he moved his family to Hornbrook, California to an 800 acre ranch, where they raised kids, quarter horses, and cows. He opened a Chiropractic office in Yreka, and became fascinated by the early history of Siskiyou County. He enjoyed taking his wife and children to the Marble Mountain Wilderness, where they packed in by horseback and camped and fished. Doc then moved to Roosevelt, Utah in the Uintah Basin where he continued practicing Chiropractic, and bought a smaller ranch, and continued raising kids, horses and cows. Their family consisted of six children, two boys and four girls. As a family they would pack in the Uintah Mountain to camp and fish. They participated on many cattle roundups with neighbors in the area. Their daughters were the most avid riders. Their small ranch stock consisted of eighteen pair of mother cows, calves and ten horses. As a family they would have a yearly round-up, where they would brand, tag the ears, and inoculate the stock. The family did everything else that went with ranch life. And, yes, they even ate Rocky Mountain Oysters.