Books tagged: westward migration

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Follow The Sun    by Mike Poppe
Price: $1.99 USD. 59600 words. Published on November 28, 2011. .

In 1840,Sean Eaton is forced to flee Ireland, and lands in America with nothing but the clothes on his back. He finds himself forced into indentured service, but soon escapes. Sean heads west in search of freedom from oppression and poverty. It's a long journey, complete with hardships and dangers of many kinds. A journey in which he falls for a stunning Indian girl from the Mohegan tribe.
River Passage    by P.M. Terrell
Price: $6.99 USD. 92410 words. Published by Drake Valley Press  on January 26, 2012. .

Inspired by a true story: The river journey was supposed to take four weeks. Instead, more than four months after they left, a ragtag group of survivors limped into Fort Nashborough with a harrowing tale. They'd faced Indian attacks, disease, near starvation. Some were captured... some killed... and some lived to tell the tale.
The Westering    by Tom Sheehan
Price: $4.99 USD. 67130 words. Published by MilSpeak Books  on March 8, 2012. .

The 21 short stories crafted by Tom Sheehan in THE WESTERING tell of the pioneering of those who came from many countries, many customs, many cultures, and brought much of that mix with them to create the American West as we now know it. THE WESTERING has been nominated for the 2012 National Books Award in Fiction.
Irish Gandy Dancer: A tale of building the Transcontinental Railroad    by Ryan Collins
Price: $2.99 USD. 45930 words. Published on July 13, 2012. .

John McGlinchey, a young Irish transplant from County Donegal finds little opportunity in South Philadelphia during Reconstruction era America. Determined to find work he joins hundreds of his countrymen in one of the greatest engineering quests of the time, building the Trans-Continental Railroad.