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Название: The Two Sams: Men of the West
Автор: F. M. Worden
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Вестерны
isbn: 9781927360484
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Table of Contents
Chapter 11: Sylvia, Texas Rangers
Chapter 12: Tucson, Arizona Territory
Chapter 13: Shooting of the Greek, Dance
Chapter 14: Apaches – Horse Race – Mexican Cowboy
The Two Sams
Men of the West
by
F. M. Worden
CCB Publishing
British Columbia, Canada
The Two Sams: Men of the West
Copyright ©2012 by F. M. Worden
ISBN-13 978-1-927360-48-4
Third Edition
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Worden, F. M., 1930-
The two Sams: men of the west / written by F. M. Worden – 3rd ed.
ISBN 978-1-927360-48-4
Also available in print format.
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PS3623.O74 T96 2009 813.6 C2009-900632-4
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CCB Publishing
British Columbia, Canada
An American story of a father and son in the 1800’s, making their way in the American West.
Chapter 1
Sam the Father
Jess Duncan, was born in the colony of Virginia in the year 1758 to an Irish and Scottish family. He was the third son of a religious father and mother, he had five brothers and one sister.
At seventeen, Jess joined the Army of northern Virginia and went to war with General George Washington. When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, upon returning home, he married his boyhood sweetheart, a Pennsylvania born, Dutch girl named, Greta Miller.
Jess took his new bride and moved to the Tennessee Valley to claim the land, one hundred and sixty acres, he received as a bonus for fighting in the war. On the claim, the two built a farm with their own bare hands and a mule. The work was hard. It was not easy for Greta to conceive or bear children. Jess couldn’t understand it, he wanted a big family. Finally a son was born in the year of 1788, he was named David, after David in the bible who became a king. It took four more years before another son was born, he was named Samuel, after the man who had God’s ear in the bible.
In the years that followed, the farming was hard and they didn’t prosper too well. Jess took to drinking. When he had too much, he СКАЧАТЬ