Gully Town
By G.P. Schultz
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G.P. Schultz has polished Kansas city's past and placed it on his mantle like a treasured antique clock. Art Brisbane - Kanss City Star. A sincere, old fashioned, sentimental novel that flows as smoothly as the wide Missouri and could well make the charts. Isabel Merriam - Wednesday Magazine. Gully Town can be best described as heartwarming because the characters are such likable folk. Jerry Heaster - Kansas City Star.
With considerable insight and romance - G.P. Schultz has caught the flavor of a robust, thriving, conniving American city of the ninteenth century. Fred Slater - Saint Joseph New-Press Gazette. Jack and Kevin are two spunky Irish orphans just off the boat and determined to make their fortunes in America. They arrive in Kansas City when it is a rugged town built along mountainous gullies carved in the mud along the Missouri River - thus earning it the name "Gully Town." For Kevin, early Kansas City affords the opportunity to fulfill his ambitions to be a newspaper reporter and to pursue his avid interest in women - until the captivating Mary, herself an Irish immigrant, steals his heart. Jack settles into the business community and his life takes a completely different turn as he helps create the Boss System of politics that continues to dominate the city for half a century. Red is a young man who witnesses the horror of Quantrill's famous raid on Lawrence, Kansas, in the early days of the Civil War and later participates in the Battle of Westport. Red finds the woman of his dreams in the beautiful Melissa - only to lose her when she learns of his past and flees, taking with her the secret that could save Red from a life of crime. As the next generation comes of age in a more civilized Kansas City it faces its own challenges. Michael, a product of Gully Town's Little Italy, grows up in violence and becomes chief of the Kansas City underworld. Michael falls in love with the beautiful Beth, and must face the inevitability of his career in organized crime destroying the life they have built together.
G.P. Schultz
G.P. Schultz is the author of the best-selling novels, Gully Town and The Ghost Dancers, and the Thorpe Menn award winning novel, Incident at Simms Center. He was born and grew up in wild, wonderful West Virginia, where he loved to hunt, fish and play sports. He then served with the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, where he met his wife, who was attending the University of Hawaii. They have two daughters and currently reside in Kansas City. His writing career began in mid-life, with the publication of his first novel, Gully Town. He currently divides his time between his marketing business and writing, but also enjoys golf, gardening and any sporting event that requires the use of a ball. He writes fiction, but combines it with years of research to make his novels accurate in time and place. His writing philosopy is, that you can't have a compelling story, without a compelling romance.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a must read! I hardly ever give a book 5 stars, but this one deserved it! It had me going from beginning to end and although I know the characters were fictional, I wish to no end they where real. I actually wanted to cry when I got to the last few pages. I will without a doubt be passing this book along.