{"product_id":"9781733665032","title":"Dragon Tooth Gold: Volume 2 - Pioneers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the nation on the brink of Civil War, Eli and the twins join the Army Supply Service. Disaster strikes in the form of a tornado that kills their parents and severely injures their younger sister. The boys take a contract to deliver supplies to the garrison at Santa Fe as Suzette runs away and waits for her brothers on the trail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: Prologue - Summarizes Volume 1 and sets the stage for travel on the Santa Fe Trail. Olathe - The rebelous Suzette joins up with her older brothers to head west. First Troubles - Eli and his brothers wait to join up with a larger wagon train only to find that the wagon master is a drunkard. The Narrows - A nine mile stretch of trail that is impossible to cross when wet. Eli makes it across but the rest of the train mires and stops. The drunkard finds his last bottle, corn whiskey tainted with wood alcohol. Eli assumes command of the wagon train. On watch in the dark, Suzette wounds a Mexican sneaking into the camp. The Mexican wants his revenge. A New Paradigm - Suzette unpacks a crate of Henry Rifles destine for a hardware store in Santa Fe. Their firepower is increased more than tenfold. Delay and Burial - A large band of renegades is operating on the trail. They encounter the sight of a massacare and stop to bury the dead. Suzette finds a young Mexican girl hiding in the rushes with a broken leg. Burlingame - The wagon train stops for repairs and reshoeing of the mules. The Callahan's stay on guard for the Mexican renegade. They learn he is Chico Diablo, an infamous outlaw and murderer. Twenty Mile Days - The green drivers and swampers turn into experienced hands. Pushing ever west, Eli befriends a Chinese cook, Mr. Sue who becomes a friend for life. Council Grove - The showdown with Chico de Diablo. Suzette kills the outlaw in a gunfight inside a church but is wounded. He fame as a gunslinger and one tough woman grows as she stitches up a wound in her side. Comanche Contact - The Indians encounter the firepower of the Henry Rifle. Defense on the trail changes forever. Fort Larned - Suzette is given a new weapon for self defense. A burette for her hair, armed with a spike. Endless Prairie - A week more of travel, Roland and Suzette blunder into Bent's Fort in the midst of a pounding rainstorm. Bent's blacksmith, a boxer, is a stalker and a rapist. He focuses on Suzette. Fort Wise - Fights are scheduled. Roland, an accomplished bare knuckels boxer himself, signs the roster for the sixt bout. The Fight - A suprising ending, Suzette and the orphaned Mexican girl win a small fortune from Bent and his banker. Abduction - Enraged by his losses, Bent's banker and his sidekick abduct Suzette and hold her for ransom. Their last mistake. Iron Spring - First encounter with hostile Apache. Again Henry Rifles and smart tactics make the day. Ratón - Steep grades and accidents were their constant companion crossing the spine of the Colorado Rockies. Fort Union - A shooting contest, the Doctors Way and a day in court. Santa Fe - More freight and a dangerous mission to deliver to fort Moore in Los Angeles. Suzette returns the Mexican girl to her grandparents. El Camino Real - On the spur of the moment, Roland marries a beautiful Mexican woman widowed by the Apache. Apache Pass - Tactics and superior fire power again win the day. Magnas Coloradas backs the Apache down and the wagon train threads it way through the pass without incident. Rio de San Pedro - Eli turns them north to meet the Gila River. They recover a map from a Peralta family envoy. An ex marks a mountain in the Arizona Territories. Colorodo Crossing - Eli finds the ferry across the mighty Colorado operated by illegal slaves. The Mojave - Hot and deadly, even in the fall, the traverse is wracked with danger End of the Line - The grandmother, Denise, is waiting for them in Los Angeles San Pedro - Eli helps free the town from a crooked sheriff and his longshormen thugs. Epilogue - Review Quotes : Dr. Kay Dean-Lifetime educator. Kent McGrew is a brilliant metallurgist, geologist, and a much sought-after consultant for the mining industry. I would expect nothing less from this intellectual, voluble engineer than the story I read in Volume I of his Dragon Tooth Gold series. Kudos to you, Kent, on an excellent book! Publisher Marketing : Dragon Tooth Gold - Volume 2 - Pioneers finds the second generation young adult Callahans mid summer, 1860. The nation is on the brink of Civil War. Eli, the oldest, and the twins join the Army Supply Service under the pressure of the their mother Anna and their grandmother Denise. Still serving their counry but safe from the front lines if war should break out, they work for the Quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth on short hauls to supply bases on the Santa Fe Trail. Disaster strikes in the form of a tornado that kills their parents and severely injures their younger sister, Suzette. After the burial of their mother and the abandonment of the search for their father, the boys take a contract to deliver a heavy load of supplys to the garrison at Santa Fe. They head to Fort Leavenworth to load up and head west. Denise is going to take Suzette by ship to meet up with the boys in Los Angeles, however, Suzette has plans of her own. She runs away and waits for her brothers on the trail. Contributor Bio: Ayliffe, Tahtim Ann Volume 1 of Dragon Tooth Gold begins the story of Aaden Callahan and Anna Mercier; two landed immigrants. They met while teaching at Columbia University in New York City. The year is 1841. The young Dr. Callahan woos and wins the heart of the smart and beautiful Anna. Their courtship isn't easy. Anna's abusive and dominating father doesn't approve and works through his connections as an investment banker to have Aaden fired from the University. Their relationship turns deadly when Anna's father challenges Aaden to a duel to settle the matter with deadly force. Aaden embarrasses Anna's father beyond repair in front of thousands of spectators in Faculty Park, across the street from the front gate of the University. Losing the duel and missing an earlobe, the banker's world crumbles around him. He takes his life in a drunken stupor when he finds his accounts frozen and receives divorce papers from his wife's lawyers. Aaden and Anna are spirited away from New York on his younger brother's whiskey schooner Blessed by the Wind. The Blessed is no ordinary schooner. Armed and deadly they fight off pirates in Pamlico Sound and take aboard a blacksmith and his apprentice slave who is his adopted son. They encounter a clairvoyant in Jamaica encounter more troubles having to fight an Argentine frigate on their way to New Orleans. Anna's mother settles in St. Louis and establishes The Black Freedom League. Aaden though is eager to homestead further west. He takes his wife and the servant family from St. Louis to Independence, Missouri, where there is land to homestead and a future to carve out of the wilderness. There, he establishes an empire partnering with blacks he buys and frees to take up homesteads around his holdings. Aaden spends his years building his lumber and brewery business. Anna founds a school in Independence for children of all colors and creeds. The abolitionist culture they create causes many problems the pro-slavery dominated state resulting in conflicts with slavers and even an assassination attempt. Aaden and Anna raise four children. Eli, the first, and twin boys, Jacques and Roland, and then finally a girl, Suzette. As the nation looms toward civil war, Anna yields to pressure from her mother and allows her boys to join the Army Supply Service. The post commander at Fort Leavenworth promises to keep the boys close to home. After a tornado sweeps through the lumber mill and brewery, however, the boys take a contract to join a wagon train all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Suzette defies her grandmother who wants to take her on a clipper ship around the horn to Los Angeles and runs away to join her brothers on the trail west.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2019-06-24\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Senate Metallurgical, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46476591693955,"sku":"9781733665032","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9781733665032.jpg?v=1770279655","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9781733665032","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}