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From a previous US assistant physician basic comes the epic tale of a young man's struggle to survive a journey across America through the Civil Warfare. Told by his stepmother that he by themselves had been responsible for the loss of life of his mother, abandoned by the earlier departure of his daddy for the California 1849 goldfields, and threatened with being locked in a cage along with his stepmother's psychotic brother, eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin "B .F." Windes decides to forego home and path his father's path. Thus begins a trip of constant have a problem with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian invasion, and loss of life on his lone journey across much of what is now america. B. F. spends the next 11 years in gold rush cities in California - first as a barber, then as a physician's associate - before departing for the Caribbean at years 19, where he becomes a blockade runner through the American Civil Warfare. At war's end he discovers that the men he had been dealing with were only common murderers and thieves - Bushwhackers. He travels to the Missouri Ozarks, where he matches the lady of his dreams. But their relationship is threatened when he sees himself battling a man from his history in order to guard his family and his future. Orphan Hero, based on the life span of the author's great-grandfather in the middle-19th century, is a tale of courage and determination in the face of incredible hardship.
