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Willard Thompson
Full Series List in Order
Chronicles of Western Pioneers
1 - The Last Cattle Drive (Apr-2011)2 - Empire Builder: Walter Vail and the Empire Ranch (Apr-2011)
3 - Going for the Gold (Apr-2011)
4 - The Day Jack Powers Turned Outlaw (Apr-2011)
5 - Mountains of Gold, Mountains of Silver: The Mining Genius of George Hearst (Apr-2011)
6 - The Wreck of the Gold Rush Steamship Winfield Scott (May-2011)
The Chronicles of California
2 - Delfina's Gold (Apr-2011)Dream Helper (Dec-2012)
Book List in Order: 9 titles
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The Day Jack Powers Turned Outlaw
- Apr-2011
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Jack Powers, a New York Bowery native and veteran of the U.S. Army of occupation of California during the Mexican War was a flamboyant man. He hob-nobbed with politicians and gamblers, and was reputed to be the best horseman in a land of great horsem...
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Delfina's Gold
- Apr-2011
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Delfina's Gold is the sequel to Willard Thompson's award-winning first novel, Dream Helper. Set in Mexican California prior to the Mexican-American War, Delfina's Gold is action romance fiction based on historical events. Will Thornton leaves Boston ...
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Empire Builder: Walter Vail and the Empire Ranch
- Apr-2011
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This is a short Biography based on original research. When a greenhorn from the East, named Walter L. Vail, teamed up with an Englishman to from the Empire Ranch in southern Arizona no one would have given a plugged nickel for their success. But the ...
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Going for the Gold
- Apr-2011
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This is a short History based on original research. When President James K. Polk stood before Congress in December 1848 and announced to the world gold had been discovered in California’s foothills, and had a tea caddy-full to prove it, he kicked o...
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The Last Cattle Drive
- Apr-2011
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NOTE: This is a short essay based on Primary Research. When the Empire Ranch in Arizona wouldn't pay exorbitant freight rates to the Southern Pacific Railroad, Ned Vail arranged the last cattle drive to California over the Sonoran and California dese...
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Dream Helper
- Dec-2012
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Winner of a gold medal from the Independent Publishers Book Awards as the Best Fiction in the Western Pacific Region in 2009, and a finalist in the Eric Hoffer National Book Awards, Dream Helper tells the story of an Indian woman's struggles to prese...
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The Girl from the Lighthouse
- Mar-2019
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The Girl From the Lighthouse tells the compelling story of Emma Dobbins. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she was raised by her father, a lighthouse keeper at Point Conception in California, where early on she discovers her artistic talent. ...
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