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- Title: Pioneer Spirit: Book Seven: War Drums
- Author : Earle Jay Goodman
- Release Date : January 04, 2020
- Genre: Historical,Books,Fiction & Literature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 633 KB
Description
Book Seven: War Drums continued Connal Lee Swinton’s adventures with his Shoshone family in Great Salt Lake City in the summer of 1859. They finished construction of their new adobe home. Connal Lee adopted six-year-old Kyle. Connal Lee’s best friend, Major John Reed, departed for the States.
Connal Lee’s family decided to take Jedediah and Jeff Morgan home to Fort Box Elder then continue on to visit Connal Lee’s family by Fort Hall. Jeff took his newly engaged fiancé with them. Renegade Indians, including Chief Pocatello’s clan and packs of murderous White Indians, plagued the northern territory and the Overland Trails. Hundreds of wagons a day headed west, adding to the chaos. On Connal Lee’s trip north, local guards from Fort Ogden mistook Connal Lee and his Shoshone family for White Indians and shot Jedediah by mistake.
After attending Jedediah’s funeral, they continued north. They visited Zeff Swinton and his new baby girl, then moved on to see Mother and Father Baines up on the Blackfoot River. While returning to Fort Box Elder, a pack of White Indians fleeing army soldiers overran them. They fired on Connal Lee’s family. The Shoshone family defended themselves. After the skirmish, soldiers from Fort Floyd detained Connal Lee and his family at the scene of the battle. The army questioned then released them with thanks for helping subdue the White Indians. Connal Lee’s family arrived in Brigham City just in time to attend Jeff’s wedding.
A week later they pulled in to their new homestead in Great Salt Lake City. David Gilmore Junior and his sister, hired to stay on the homestead and water the garden, reported several vicious pranks and criminal threats during their absence. Shortly after their return, they discovered their new orchard trampled into the ground. Connal Lee led a search for the vandal. They followed their unknown enemy south to Mount Olympus before losing his trail.
A few days later their mysterious foe kidnapped Bright Star in broad daylight. Despite hiding his tracks and setting false trails, Connal Lee trailed him to where he left Bright Star tied up on the ground, beaten, unconscious, but alive. Furious, Connal Lee and Screaming Eagle pursued the kidnapper’s tracks. When the trail ended abruptly, the kidnapper opened fire and wounded Screaming Eagle. He then disappeared. On the ride home Screaming Eagle fainted from loss of blood. While Connal Lee attended him, a hulking brute of an ex-soldier, one of the men arrested and punished for shooting up Connal Lee’s homestead some months prior, attacked him from behind. They fought fiercely.
