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Zekial
It's Easy to be Brave from a Safe Distance. When Zekial Broome stops a sadistic slave chaser, Grissum McCord, from whipping his captive, he and the girl have no choice but to flee west into the untamed lands of the wild frontier. If they can make it to the Green River country, no one will ever find them. What they don't count on is McCord. With a five-hundred-dollar bounty at stake and revenge in his heart, he'll follow them to hell and back, for as long as it takes. He’s murdered before, but the revenge he plans for the buckskin-clad Broome would make a strong man quail. Zekial and Tilly are forced to keep running, always looking over their shoulders, until they have no choice but to find a place to make their stand. No matter what happens, they'll both be changed forever... but will they find the peace they seek to get on with their lives? Non-stop action, life and death struggles, triumph and despair fill the pages of what may very well be the best yarn yet from the pen of legendary author Dusty Richards.
314 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 3, 2018
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Dusty Richards
100 books73 followersAuthor of over 85 novels, Dusty Richards is the only author to win two Spur awards in one year (2007), one for his novel The Horse Creek Incident and another for his short story “Comanche Moon.” He is a member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the International Professional Rodeo Association, and serves on the local PRCA rodeo board. Dusty is also an inductee in the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame. He currently resides in northwest Arkansas. He was the winner of the 2010 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for his novel Texas Blood Feud and honored by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2009.
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March 4, 2019
ZEKIAL AND TILLY
Zekial a mountain man whose come down off the mountains to sell his furs and trade or buy necessities to carry him for the next three or four months, before returning to his home in the mountains. He also visits friends he's made during his visits to civilization.
While there he witnessed a crowd of men so he went to check and saw a man with a short leather whip beating a black woman, no one said a word just staring at the horror with grins on their faces. Zekial stepped in and told the beater to stop, which prompted Grissium McCord, slave tracker from the state of Alabama returning Tilly, a young woman whom he caught hiding in a corn shed. She was probably following the underground railroad, which many Quakers were involved in. From the description given by Tilly to Zekial of a elderly man dressed in black with a boiled white shirt, whom Grissium had beaten to get the information where she was located.
Reading this story/adventure of the lives of freed slaves and how they were still treated...very very dehumanizing..a very sad historical time in American history, that hasn't really disappeared, but certainly is disappointing and hurtful to all people of color.
What was sad, just reading the dialogue of how Tilly kept her head down, ALWAYS accepting her place in society as that of not worthy, and the whites weren't much BETTER, but because they are white they were one hundred times better superior than Tilly. I don't enjoy reading these types of books about slavery or for the fact, that the Western Frontier was an ugly dangerous people of color, but through everything that Tilly and Zekial endured he never turned his back on her. He supported her both physically and emotionally and she did the same with him.
I hope that Zekial and Tilly have a good life with the children that they'll have, and hopefully the surrounding settlers are supportive in a positive way... but we all know there will be those who will try and harm them...I hope the author wrote more about this couple and their lives...because those were scary scary horrific times for people of color, no shoes or descent clothing during the winter meanwhile the rich White paraded his wealth while the pitiful blacks walked alongside of the wagon he was leading....sad sad totally indecent morale treatment..
Zekial a mountain man whose come down off the mountains to sell his furs and trade or buy necessities to carry him for the next three or four months, before returning to his home in the mountains. He also visits friends he's made during his visits to civilization.
While there he witnessed a crowd of men so he went to check and saw a man with a short leather whip beating a black woman, no one said a word just staring at the horror with grins on their faces. Zekial stepped in and told the beater to stop, which prompted Grissium McCord, slave tracker from the state of Alabama returning Tilly, a young woman whom he caught hiding in a corn shed. She was probably following the underground railroad, which many Quakers were involved in. From the description given by Tilly to Zekial of a elderly man dressed in black with a boiled white shirt, whom Grissium had beaten to get the information where she was located.
Reading this story/adventure of the lives of freed slaves and how they were still treated...very very dehumanizing..a very sad historical time in American history, that hasn't really disappeared, but certainly is disappointing and hurtful to all people of color.
What was sad, just reading the dialogue of how Tilly kept her head down, ALWAYS accepting her place in society as that of not worthy, and the whites weren't much BETTER, but because they are white they were one hundred times better superior than Tilly. I don't enjoy reading these types of books about slavery or for the fact, that the Western Frontier was an ugly dangerous people of color, but through everything that Tilly and Zekial endured he never turned his back on her. He supported her both physically and emotionally and she did the same with him.
I hope that Zekial and Tilly have a good life with the children that they'll have, and hopefully the surrounding settlers are supportive in a positive way... but we all know there will be those who will try and harm them...I hope the author wrote more about this couple and their lives...because those were scary scary horrific times for people of color, no shoes or descent clothing during the winter meanwhile the rich White paraded his wealth while the pitiful blacks walked alongside of the wagon he was leading....sad sad totally indecent morale treatment..
August 21, 2021
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