Fenwick Travers is a rollicking good-natured, and thoroughly unmilitary brawler who finds himself in the army as the result of pure happenstance. Above all else, he wants to establish himself comfortably in the world without undue exertion. Unexpectedly, he excels in his new career. While campaigning in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, Travers acquires a completely gratuitous reputation for valor in combat while hobnobbing with Teddy Roosevelt and Black Jack Pershing. After the war, he remains in Havana to conduct a cozy gunrunning operation. After things begin to sour in Cuba, our hero is off to China to help put down the Boxer Rebellion. He battles howling fanatics, becomes aware of unlimited opportunities for looting and like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn before him, is soon off on a treasure hunt. Travers eventually returns to New York as a national hero, feted and honored by the nation's political and military leadership.

Fenwick Travers and the Years of Empire: An Entertainment

Literature & Fiction

Saunders, Raymond M.

United States

Berkley_Pub Group

Blessed: I'm So Damn Grateful

ADVANCE MAGAZINE SUMMARY Unique memoirs of a ninety-two-year-old blind Iowa farmer and pioneering siblings, orphaned by murder/suicide, who built an international cattle empire and lost it in the Depression. A story of common courage, faith, family values and a way of life. Illustrated.

Biographies & Memoirs

Saunders, Craig

Community & Culture

AuthorHouse

These memoirs are a history of pioneering siblings orphaned by a murder/suicide who settled virgin prairie to build an international cattle empire only to lose it in the Great Depression. It is also a story of courage, faith, determination and family values as one family struggles to keep their home and the land they tamed. It is not heroic, it is every day life. It is about a family struggling with the realities of life while dreaming of a better future. Rich only in the blessings of life in America, solid values and devoted family they had all the things that money couldn't buy and through it all, one man who was "so damn grateful". Written from the perspective of an Iowa farmer who was born and lived on the same land for 92 years, this is a history tempered by 368 change of seasons, World Wars, a Great Depression and technology advances that have rocked the very foundations of our world. But most of all, 92 years of working with and sometimes battling Mother Nature tempered by family, friends and God. That makes this not so much a history of a family as a way of life.

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