Sean McKannah leaves 17th century Ireland aboard a sailing vessel after losing his family to an apartment fire. After traveling several years with his surrogate father-figure, Capt. Mullholland, he bids the sea farewell to try his hand at trapping in the mountains of Northern California above San Francisco with his newfound friend, Francisco. Although successful, the two young men are lured away by Francisco’s Uncle to Southern California, to search for wild mustangs to use for breeding wild strength into his soon-to-arrive, high blooded Spanish mares. Following a few years of horse ranching, that pits the two young men and their Mexican ranch hands against Apache Indians and murderous outlaws, Sean marries Francisco’s sister Isabella and together they create a successful sheep ranch in Northern California. Their six children, Patrick, Broderick, Simon, Ian, Jesse, and Aleena are the characters that drive the second half of this story. Patrick and Broderick attend the newly formed Harvard Law School…Simon becomes a man hunter and eventually a Texas Ranger…Ian, a professional gambler…Jesse, the driving character, shuns modern society to live with the Flathead Indians…and Aleena becomes a schoolteacher. The McKannah family alone could create enough adventure, but they are joined by many interesting characters that will keep the reader turning pages, and anticipating the sequel that will be available mid 2011.

The McKannahs

Literature & Fiction

Rick Magers

Genre Fiction

Grizzly Bookz Publishing

This is a book of short stories that are anything but traditional. However, fans of this author have shoved it a notch closer to the top of his list of books.

America

Magers, Rick

Disgusted with how their Flathead Indian friends are being treated, Jesse McKannah and his brothers drop everything and head up into the mountains once again, to help the Native Americans cope with corrupt politicians.

The McKannahs ~together again~

In the first year of our 41 year marriage, I vowed to my soulmate that I would never let her suffer if for any reason all quality of life had abandoned her. I honored that vow. I now live alone and occupy my time writing books. I gave the house I built her in the North Georgia mountains to one of my sons, and then, with my Jack Russell terrier, Dandy, did book signing throughout the south. Dandy is gone now, and at nearly 80, I live alone with my memories of the good years with my Aquarius wife, before her health carried her to a place that was too difficult and painful to endure.

A Sacred Vow ~memoir~

Biographies & Memoirs

Those who held the power in Florida Government chose to do nothing when thousands of foot long pythons were being illegally sold in pet shops throughout South Florida. Now that pythons as large as a small melon, and up to 20 feet long, have multiplied into a six-figure nightmare, and have spread throughout the only Everglades on Planet Earth, by devouring most of the birds and small animals that Floridians and tourists have enjoyed watching and photographing since cameras were developed, the current politicians are running about like frightened mutts threatened by modern athletes to be tossed into the fighting ring with a pit bull. Their efforts will now be as futile as the mutt's against a trained killer. Those same politicians might soon offer the only sure method to eliminate the pythons. I can hear them now, "We must get rid of the deadly pythons before they begin devouring the people living in South Florida. We must fill in the Everglades. Our marksmen will kill them as they attempt to flee ahead of our fleet of bulldozers." It sounds sad, but there is a good side to this scenario. Tourists will be able to have winter mansions built in what was once the Everglades, and land nearby at the new Everglades International Air Terminal. Tourists with lesser finances will have several new gated communities in which to purchase their winter home, and new golf courses will pop up like tulips to combat boredom. Malls, schools, and universities will materialize, allowing new Floridians to be born in the dry and paved Everglades, and be educated there without ever leaving. Who needs a nasty wilderness like the Everglades? Rumor has circulated that a new NASCAR raceway will begin construction as soon as the Everglades in dried up. What a shame that the 'movers-and-shakers' of the land developer tribes, were held at bay so long. Our forefathers could have enjoyed all of this, if we had just thought to fill in the nasty swamp years ago.

Uninvited

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

In 15,000 BP, indigenous people in Siberia begin a journey that will take them across the land-bridge to North America. They build dugout canoes to carry them down the Pacific Coast of California to the tip of Baja. They cross the Sea of Cortez into Mexico, and then cross Central America by river until reaching the Caribbean Sea. Leaving Colombia, they travel through small islands and eventually come to Cuba. Traders have told them stories of a land north of Cuba where the land is flat and never cold. After crossing they find the Florida Keys and then venture north along the western coast of Florida. After landing in a protected bay, they go ashore and create a village near the bay. In time they become known as Calusa, and dominate Southwest Florida for 2,000 years. Early in the 1,500s the Spaniards arrive in the same area, and a very short time later, the Calusa are threatened with extinction. A few find their way back to Cuba, but it's the end of the Calusa.

CALUSA ~warriors from a distant past~

History

Ancient Civilizations

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