Civil Bend

About the Book

Civil Bend, scenic landscape of the Missouri river destined for shackling, is history spiced with legend for better or worse. The scenic rendezvous features reliant, resilient, resolute ancestors and descendents of aboriginal heirs, white immigrant settlers, free black homesteaders, escaping black slaves who witnessed and experienced manifest destiny's conquest, an abolitionist hole of the underground railroad, the civil war, the emancipation of slaves, the refinement of community, the emergence of a new century, the first world war, the woman suffrage movement, the prohibition of alcohol, the great depression, the dust bowl, the real life occurances of birth, development, maturity, marriage, parenting, labor, service, disease, illness, injury, deluge, tornado, flood, drought, depravity, dissent, reconciliation, aging, death before the closing of an incredible era.

About the Author

Tagged along as scampy lad, much obliging adore of tutors had. Saunter to magnificent river serene, meditation focus on imaged dream. Off to college town, obscure scene; eager learner, farm kid wean. Being a university center man first career, second producer headlining years. Tranquil forward pace, writer's hear; incredible journey, full circle near.