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Adobe Moon - Wyatt Earp: An American Odyssey
Author: Mark Warren

"Adobe Moon," Mark Warren'sfirst book in a trilogy on Wyatt Earp is more than historical fiction. Thoughit is a period piece of the 19th century, it is a timeless storythat relates to all of us. — — Regardless of when or where a person lives in time, each of usis faced with a universal plight: How do we become a man or a woman? And how dowe find... more » our place in the world?

Do the times shape us? Yes, just as surely as the place andpeople around us. Family, especially. It has always been this way.

What if you wanted to run away from home to fight in a war . . .but you were too young? What if you were forced to labor over 80 acres of cropsby an overbearing father who knew nothing about giving some slack to his sons?And, as a fourteen year old, after accruing the requisite calluses of farming,what aspirations might you consider for your vocation?

This is the story of such a boy who never quite finds allthose answers. But because of his physicality, confidence, and a willingness toexercise deliberate courage, he does find his place in a life much admired byhis peers. His name will always be spoken anytime that a conversation arisesabout justice vs. law and order . . . and how those American commodities do notalways balance on the scales of a courtroom bench. His name was Wyatt Earp.

Earp was many things-farmer, freight hauler, stage driver,railroad wrangler, husband, constable, wood splitter, accused horse thief,brothel bouncer, buffalo hunter, gambler, and lawman-most of this in the "new"and raw land of America's untapped West. The possibilities seemed endless forWyatt, but he will be remembered in that last category . . . peace officer, arole he did not want. Instead, it would seem that history wanted it for him. Hewas that good at it.

Synopsis: It is 1862. With his older brothers fighting in the war,Wyatt Earp is left to manage the family's Iowa farm under his father's ironrule. These years of labor produce in him an ambition to seek his fortunes byhis wits rather than by the sweat of his back. The open territory to the west,he knows, offers that opportunity. On his way to California he meets abeguiling Mexican girl, who tells him of the "adobe moon," arusty-hued orb that reminds a man: If you do not achieve your dreams, youmust settle for what you have. Wyatt rejects this idea, but it haunts him nevertheless,as he takes odd jobs, becomes a constable in a small Missouri town, andultimately sinks into a depression where the line of ethics blur. Fed up withhis self-made squalor, he returns to the West for a second chance at a properlife, and in a Kansas cattle town he comes face to face with hissalvation...and his destiny as a lawman with his own iron rule.

ISBN-13: 9781432838164
ISBN-10: 1432838164
Publication Date: 11/15/2017
Pages: 266
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Publisher: Five Star Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
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Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States
Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Historical >> Biographical
Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Westerns
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