Showdown at Scatter Creek

by John T. Wayne

Overview

During the Civil War, hundreds of boys were orphaned or abandoned, most ending up on the streets of St. Louis, where they became known as The Gaslight Boys. Duke John Robinson was such a boy. Kidnapped off the streets of St. Louis by Ol' Slantface, Duke makes his way home after a daring escape, initiated by Captain Grimes, to find as much or more trouble awaiting him there. His mother was dead, his father apparently abandoned them and his siblings were scattered. For a boy, not quite a man, the odds were insurmountable. Captain Franklin Starr, a neighbor started the trouble when he stole Duke's saddle and gear. Determined to get his belongings back, Duke begins an odyssey that finds him riding with Nathaniel Bowlin, better known as The Swamp Fox to defend their corner of the world from the encroaching Yankees and to stop Captain Starr. With no choice, Duke has to grow up fast as he eludes death on more than one occasion. When his father, mortally wounded, appears at the home place and accuses Captain Starr of an ambush, Duke, with the help of friends, searches for justice and retribution for his family.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161695692
Publisher:	Mockingbird Lane Press
Publication date:	11/29/2018
Series:	The Gaslight Boys Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John T. Wayne was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1958 with the name Terry Wayne Hammock.
Legally, he changed his name in 2012 when he finally learned at the age of 52 who his real grandfather was, (something he didn't learn until his father was buried and gone). His new name should give you a hint as to his actual grandfather.
He joined the Marines in 1976 and began two tours overseas. He attended the University of Oregon on his GI Bill and when his daughter died from cancer in 1985 he quit all together. He suddenly realized the professors couldn't teach him what I wanted to know about writing, because they didn't know themselves.
While the author grew up in Missouri, he and his wife Donna now live in Arkansas. "I guess you would call that the Ozarks," he says, "and we love our Ozark heritage."
He began writing his books in 1985; books about the orphan's from the Civil War. It seems no one has heard much about them. These young men became the first cowboys, as all of the grown men were off fighting a war. John T. writes, stories about the Civil War and the Old West which have been largely ignored or forgotten.