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Ann Gunn
Actually, there are going to be passages on the native Americans and black slave trade, but I want to show how this family and the Mormons were totally against the atrocities and actually befriended some native Americans, one of whom came to George Morphew Munford's funeral (Ann's brother) and gave his condolences, saying what a good friend he had been. This is true and is documented.
Ann Gunn
Have just about finished this new book 'Ann Gunn'. Will probably call it 'Munford-Gunn'. I have included quite a bit of the American Indian wars too. Have taken it up to the death of one of the main characters in 1875. Needs to read through it and make any changes now, plus do a cover, which I may paint.
MUNFORD-GUNN
This tells the true dramatically exciting story of two separate families, travelling in the mid 19th century, to make the life-threatening journey from England to Utah, in America, to avoid persecution for their religion.
They board sailing boats, that take six weeks to cross the Atlantic, through storms and the subsequent sickness. Charles Dickens actually boards the 'Amazon' ship that Ann Munford is on and reports on his findings (true report).
They then join wagon trains, travelling, mostly by foot, trudging beside ox-drawn wagons, that are carrying their only possessions, supplies and equipment, walking over the 1,300 miles across the searing hot plains, hauling the wagons over numerous rivers, then up into the freezing mountains where no roads have been built, with the ever-present threat of losing their lives and wagons over the cliff edges. All the while their water and food is quickly depleting.
Many people did not make it, dying along the way, of starvation, dehydration and sickness and pure exhaustion. The ones who make it, start building towns in Utah. Ann Munford meets George Gunn in Parowan, Utah, and they marry but continue to clear land and build homes, until the threat of hostile Indian retaliation, from the Black Hawk wars, drives them back.
The history is factual, to a great extent, gleaned from family records. This is a true history of my own ancestors and the opening up of the West.
They board sailing boats, that take six weeks to cross the Atlantic, through storms and the subsequent sickness. Charles Dickens actually boards the 'Amazon' ship that Ann Munford is on and reports on his findings (true report).
They then join wagon trains, travelling, mostly by foot, trudging beside ox-drawn wagons, that are carrying their only possessions, supplies and equipment, walking over the 1,300 miles across the searing hot plains, hauling the wagons over numerous rivers, then up into the freezing mountains where no roads have been built, with the ever-present threat of losing their lives and wagons over the cliff edges. All the while their water and food is quickly depleting.
Many people did not make it, dying along the way, of starvation, dehydration and sickness and pure exhaustion. The ones who make it, start building towns in Utah. Ann Munford meets George Gunn in Parowan, Utah, and they marry but continue to clear land and build homes, until the threat of hostile Indian retaliation, from the Black Hawk wars, drives them back.
The history is factual, to a great extent, gleaned from family records. This is a true history of my own ancestors and the opening up of the West.
The RAF Fauld 'Secret' Hiroshima, 1944
This is a true, historical novel - the true story of the day east Staffordshire and Derby were rocked by a terrific explosion that shattered the peaceful farming villages, sending up an Hiroshima-like
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