Captain Grimes

by John T. Wayne

Overview

Mark Twain! Here is an icon of American literature, a national monument if you count all the national forests in Missouri which are dedicated to him, yet to date there is little written until now of his Civil War escapades with the Ralls County Rangers, or his career as a riverboat pilot from Hannibal. Saddled with a war nobody wanted except for a few powerful and wealthy families, two characters did not mature one bit and that is what makes Captain Grimes Unreconstructed such a treasure. From spying to stealing river boats and blowing up ironclads, the career of Captain Grimes would be considered a valiant one if you were fighting for the south. The Yankee's wanted his head on a platter, and in 1864 they captured the Confederate mail runner for a sixth time, but fate intervened and the Union was forced to release him. Several more attempts were made on his life, but he lived to be old and seasoned. He retired as a park ranger from Missouri and well, you know what happened to Mark Twain.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161695661
Publisher:	Mockingbird Lane Press
Publication date:	11/29/2018
Series:	The Gaslight Boys Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	427 KB

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.