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  • The Orphan Train Ruffian

    by J.B. Patel ...
    The Orphan Train ran from 1854 until 1929, according to records at the Monroe County Library in Sparta, Wisconsin, the train stopped taking children from the Sparta facility in 1933. The Orphan Train idea was born in New York which had about 30,000 street orphans in 1854. It is estimated, from 150,000 to 250,000 children from large cities east of the Mississippi were sent west and south on trains ... Read more

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  • The Orphan Train Twins, And Their White Horse Dream

    by J. B. Patel ...
    During the era of the orphan trains, up to a quarter of a million orphaned, neglected, or abandoned children were removed mostly from larger populations and dispersed throughout the country. The lucky ones were adopted into well-intentioned families, some were indentured, enslaved, and terribly abused. What is it about the human spirit that allows some of those subjected to such treatment to rise ... Read more

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  • Eyes Like Sky

    by J.B. Patel ...
    Eyes Like Sky is the story of a wagon train and the entanglement of the many lives and their transition as they travel. ... Read more

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  • The Fated Winchester

    by J.B. Patel ...
    The Fated Winchester is about a boy who runs away after killing his father while trying to save his mother. He seeks to hide by getting on the orphan train and being indentured at a cattle ranch. Instead he ends up with a drunken Wyoming sheep owner at a time when big cattle ranches ruled the range. The story chronicles the times a gold plated Winchester saves his life. Meanwhile during his ... Read more

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  • Long Road Home

    by J. B. Patel ...
    While some recognized their duty and went to fight in the war between the North and South, others intended to make a profit by staying behind. As fifteen-year-old Amy grabbed Lance's sleeve she knew she was heading off a fight between him and four of the Keating boys. That night after the dance, Lance would be heading south to fight in the war for the Union Army, Amy figured he didn't need to ... Read more

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  • Lonesome Valley

    Book III a Collection of Frontier Stories by J. B. Patel

    by J. B. Patel ...
    Lonesome Valley is the first short story in this book. The characters include a retired army captain devastated by the loss of his wife and child, he is looking for lonesome. She has lost everything, together they fight to reclaim their lives. Other stories in the book include a wizened old sheriff and a young couple needing a start in life. A story about a woman that buys a ranch and needs help ... Read more

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  • Rock

    by J.B. Patel ...
    Nothing could erase the smile etched on the face of the convict named Rock. The heat of the summer Arizona sun beating on his bare back, blood trickling from the six-inch bullwhip gash on his back, the sound of a dozen mauls smashing rocks, the dust; all were testament to the deck stacked against him and reasons not to smile. After killing two men amid blazing gunfire, Rock was convicted and sent ... Read more

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  • Two World's Ridge

    by J.B. Patel ...
    Love in the Amish community has rigid boundaries, speaking out by females in church or ordinance meeting is forbidden. In this story, from the outset, Sarianna is at odds with the Bishop of a small and strict Swartzentruber Amish district.Sarianna breaks the Amish mold. In a male-dominated society, she is willing to stand up for children and those abused. In the Amish community one does not stand ... Read more

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  • The Hangman

    by J.B. Patel ...
    My stories are set mostly in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, my characters come from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and sometimes right out of the orphanage. ... Read more

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  • Spirit Mountain

    by J.B. Patel ...
    Spirit Mountain is a collection of three short books. Conway, in “Spirit Mountain,” runs away as a child and is captured by Indians who then give him to a mountain man. In the story “Knife,” he is abducted as a child, raised by a paid keeper, sold to pirates with orders to kill; he escapes and ends up in the hands of the Comanche. Lance Roman in “The Peacemaker” goes off to fight with the British, ... Read more

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  • Walking Mountain-Shadow Spirit

    by J. B. Patel ...
    "Walking Mountain-Shadow Spirit" is about a thirteen-year-old runaway that has listened to many stories of mountain men and believes living in the mountains would be preferred to living at home. Tired of the exclusion at home he successfully lives on his own in the mountains until he is badly injured. He is helped to heal by Walking Mountain, a giant Ute outcast. Free from the constraints of his ... Read more

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  • The Five Star Ranch

    A Collection of Frontier Stories.

    by J.B. Patel ...
    The five-star ranch is a collection of short stories set in the old West. Stories about a runaway befriended and growing up on a ranch, of a rancher realizing he has nobody to take over after he is gone, a story of a lad traveling westward and coming to the aid of an Indian boy on the way. Other stories include a son sent West to gain insight, a lad leaving his farming roots and learning what he ... Read more

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