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Just One Bullet Left - Book 1
The story begins in rural Missouri 1893. Ten-year-old Jessie meets a boy her own age who becomes her best friend, the only real friend she has ever had.
They both become engrossed in medicine, with Jessie wanting to be a nurse and Mike planning to follow in his uncle's footsteps to become a doctor.
But Jessie's life proves to be much more difficult. When running away from a terrible fate she finds herself all alone in the middle of the prairie in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma.
The reader soon finds that it takes a lot more than "Just One Bullet" to save Jessie.
Finding Dakota - Book 2
Young Army Sergeant Wade Parker is thrust into circumstances that will make him wrong no matter what decision he makes. He goes with his conscience, an act that bodes well for his later career as a U.S. Marshal in Oklahoma's Indian Territory.
The Indian girl, Little Dove, learns that while she is physically the weaker sex, she is not helpless and can get herself out of almost any difficult situation if she uses her head.
The mixed-blood boy, Dakota, finds out at an early age that he is considered "different." When he runs from discrimination, his life is put in real danger.
Their lives all cross and mingle during a demanding time of our Nation's history - from Arizona to Florida, and later to the rough-'n-tumble Indian Territory of Oklahoma. Together, they face overwhelming challenges as the principled marshal and confident Indian girl search for Dakota, and justice.
Blue Mountain - Book 3
Two United States Marshals joined up in 1898 to catch outlaws who have been terrorizing the people of the Indian Territory. One is a seasoned veteran from the U.S. Cavalry who has been a marshal for twelve years, the other, in his early twenties, is just beginning his career. It falls to Wade Parker to teach the young and impulsive Clay Owen the ropes.
This book continues with the story of Parker's Indian wife Little Dove, whose white mother was captured by an Apache Indian and her son, Dakota, who is of mixed-blood. It tells the heartwarming story of two white wolves that had migrated from the plains of Kansas only to be caught by traps set my man, leaving behind two pups that are raised by Dakota and his family. Blue Mountain is entertaining adventure reading for the entire family.
Puckerbrush Cannon - Book 4
United States Marshal Clay Owen, who is from the Indian Territory, takes the train to Mare Island in California to pick up a cannon that was captured during the Spanish-American War and transports it by train to Forest City, Iowa. A thirteen-year-old named Dakota, who is of mixed blood, accompanies him. While in Iowa, they inquire about Dakota's great-grandparents who had lived in Puckerbrush (Forest City).
This book also follows the fictitious characters of Willard and Sally Duncan and their two children, twins, named Diana and Dennis. The family headed west in 1858 and settled in Forest City, Iowa for several years. In 1867, after the twins reached their seventeenth birthday, the Duncan family continued their journey west.
While the family is traveling through Arizona, following the Butterfield Overland Trail, a young Apache Indian Brave captures Diana and takes her for his bride. The Duncan family head back east and settle on the Chisholm Trail in the Indian Territory, while continually searching for Diana.
It tells the heartwarming story of a brother's search for his twin sister, who was captured by the Indians, and his dedication to her, postponing any life for himself.
**Historical Western Fiction series by Juanita Holbrook Ingram**
I first saw
the light of
day in the
mid-thirties
and grew up in rural Ohio, having never had an indoor toilet or electric lights until my family moved to Columbus, Ohio during the Christmas holidays in 1949, when I was fifteen years old.
When school started in the new year, I met Bob, my future husband, who lived just down the road.
Like many young girls in those days, I wanted to become a nurse. After high school, I attended Grant Hospital School of Nursing and after I had finished one year, my husband to be, received his orders for the military. In those days, you weren't allowed to attend nursing school and be married, so I quit in June and was married on July 7, 1953.
In 1976, after spending twenty three years as an Air Force wife, seeing America, two tours of duty in the country of Turkey and raising three children, we retired to our home in Tampa, just a mile from MacDill Air Force Base.
We both went to work at the University of South Florida. My husband with Printing Services on the second floor of the Administration building, while I worked down the hall from him in the Media Relations Department, where I learned to write news releases and was able to take writing courses at USF's School of Mass Communication.In 1996, we bought a Winnebago motor home, retired from the University of South Florida the end of June, and left the next morning to tour the West.At the Grand Canyon, I came across the story of the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Railroad and the "Harvey Girls" and became intrigued with telling their story in a fictitious setting. Thus began the story of "Just One Bullet Left" in November of 1999.Before that, I had never made up a story about anything and to my astonishment, I found it easy to do. It seemed like the story just sort of wrote itself, even in my sleep.My husband edits my work and gives me his expert advice on those things that men know best. So, my friends, I'm here to tell you that it is never too late to try something new. Juanita Holbrook Ingram
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