Treacherous Journey

Written by Larry D. Kendrick

Narrated by Dallas Britt

When a fourteen-year-old boy travels to San Francisco after leaving his father's run-down, failing farm in Las Cruces, New Mexico, he is shanghaied and flogged for insubordination. Young Bill Bronson has to grow up quickly to survive spending many months at sea before finally making it back to the US, where he works as a stagecoach driver and serves in the 1st California Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Bill falls in love with an Indian princess and marries her. Despite the interference of bigots, he builds a homestead in Tulare County, California, where he explores the history of Farmersville and Linnell Camp. The search for a missing child links local white and Indian families, bringing them all closer together in a time when California Indians are considered less than human. Treacherous Journey is a riveting novel of optimism, morals, principles, and perseverance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Larry D. Kendrick Publishing
• Release date: Jan 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9798368988696

Larry D. Kendrick

Larry David Kendrick was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He was on his own at sixteen and worked as a cowboy on a small ranch in Elk, New Mexico. He enlisted in the United States Army-Army Reserve-National Guard, spending over twenty years as a paratrooper and communications specialist, then was honorably discharged as a disabled veteran. He holds an AA and BS in Aviation and used that skill as a search-and-rescue pilot. Larry has published several poems and short stories in A Sea of Treasures: The National Library of Poetry, Veterans Voices, and Good Old Days Magazine, along with several newspaper articles and novels: Cattle Drive 1882, Gunslinger to Lawman, Tommy Dean and the Little Red Squirrel, Tommy Dean’s New Friend, and Too Soon a Man.