This link will take you directly to IngramSpark, the printing/distribution company, where you will able to directly order the book Saving Arapahoe and save a few bucks. The book lists at $17.95 but you can buy it here for $11.95!
This sale is intended to promote the book. THE SALE WILL END ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2024. The book is family-friendly. (This series has been reviewed as a young man’s version of Little House on the Prairie.)
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Background
My parents are still unpacking from their most recent move, which occurred about thirty-four years ago. Yet to be unpacked are a few storage bins containing notes, letters, geneaolgy, family histories, photos, and things of that nature. I asked Mom if I could look through one of the boxes. “Sure,” she said.
I was hoping for a Honus Wagner baseball card. I didn’t find one, but what I found thrilled me.
The bin was filled with the writings — notes, letters, memos to self — of John Stevens Jr., my great-grandfather (Mom’s mom’s dad). I never met him. He passed away four years before I was born. My great-grandfather spent the early years of childhood in Polk County, Iowa, but when he was four or five the family uprooted and traveled by covered wagon to homestead in western Nebraska, ending up in the Arapahoe area southwest of Lincoln. The wagons took twenty-three days to make the journey. It was cold — the trip was February, 1878. They had to get there by early spring if they expected to reap a harvest in the fall.
The trip was also dangerous; keep in mind that this was only a couple of years after Custer’s Last Stand (at the Battle of Little Big Horn). Hostilities between the white men and the Indian natives were at an all-time high.
The Stevens clan arrived in Arapahoe only to encounter the threats of attacks from a Cheyenne nation that is scurrying northward in defiance of a U.S. government proclamation, and the tension of the situation is thick.
How does this all turn out?
Sorry, you’ll have to read the books. The bin was full of good fodder for three historical fiction books about my great-grandfather, John Stevens Jr., or “Johnny.” I finished Saving Arapahoe, the third book of the Johnny Stevens Pioneer Adventures book series.
I want people to read it and tell others, so I’m offering this at a low price until September 30. Then it will resume normal pricing.
Try it!