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Wind Drifters
Wind Drifters
Wind Drifters
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After having served his country for twelve years, four of which included duty during those turbulent years of the Civil War, William Pap Paprich has decided to retire from the restraints of military life. With no plans other than to travel the United States wherever the wind takes him, he decides to visit the one man he can honestly say he owes his life to, a half-breed Indian scout named Yanni Two Feathers.

Pap finds his friend embroiled in a struggle with local ruffians who dislike the fact that he served the Union rather than their beloved Confederacy. Just as things come to a boil, Pap gets a telegram from his sister begging for help. The familys ranch and others surrounding it have been plagued with murders and rustled cattle by men who seemingly vanish into thin air. The local law enforcement is either unwilling or unable to bring justice to the lawlessness.

Plans are altered, and together William and Yanni make their way to Lawrence, Kansas, where skills once learned during the War Between the States will have to be called forth for the familys survival.

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Release dateFeb 5, 2015
ISBN9781489704061
Wind Drifters
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Samuel Galen Galen Metro

Samuel Galen Metro was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1964. For over twenty years he has been employed as a middle school U.S. History teacher in Florida. An avid collector and shooter of western-styled guns, both cap and ball and cartridge, as well as a collector of western artifacts, his lessons take on new heights when the subject of Westward Expansion is covered.

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