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Daniel begins life inside a covered wagon beneath the limbs of an ancient birthing tree. He is strong of body and sensitive of mind, and cared for by his only parent, Melinda after his well-meaning but footloose father, Jacob, abandons them. Haunted by nightmarish events in his past and faced by a ruthless enemy, Danielā€™s mind is further taxed when he reaches manhood. He suffers an inability to choose between two attractive young women. One is a former classmate and music partner while the other is a lovely but spoiled, daughter of an influential man. A brown-eyed Cherokee woman who marries his friend, Seth, is abducted by kinsmen and returned to the tribal village. Seth follows her and they make their home among the Cherokees. As the War of 1812 rages on, the two friends meet again on the battlefieldā€”one with life-changing news to deliver for the other.
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Knowing Daniel was inspired by a deep interest in the seldom visited events of the late 18th and the early 19th centuries. The War of 1812 is portrayed as it was although some of the main and secondary characters are based on the experience of others. These other considerations prompted a weaving in of actual events:
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- The existence of the birthing tree, outside the present city of McMinnville, TN, which still stands and spreads its giant branches under which pioneer women gave birth while their wagon trains were pausing for refitting;
- The oral history as told to me by part-Cherokee members of the elders of my family including the abduction of my great-great-great grandmother;
- The personal witnessing of an attempted kidnap of a baby and the reasons why a semi-deranged mother did it;
- The library and ancestry records of one Daniel West, who was a veteran of the War of 1812 whose wife left him after her first husband, presumed dead in a battle with Native Americans, showed up to reclaim his wife. Daniel's reaction to the personal tragedy was to carve himself a home inside a giant tree and to ride about the villages astride a white steer.
- The customs and histories of the Cherokees and other tribes such as the Creeks and Chickasaws and their chiefs.
Mick Jett is a free-lance writer and veteran journalist who worked for more than 20 years on the staff of The Miami Herald where he served as assistant news editor and chief of the copy desk. During his years as a journalist his duties included sports writing for The Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser and The Tallahassee (FL) Democrat, editing and reporting for The Tennessean in Nashville. As a freelancer Mick wrote feature stories for The Herald, The Tallahassean and a two-part cover story for Irish Dancing Magazine in the UK. His short story, Monster in the Neighborhood which appeared in Tropic Magazine was used as a writing example for its writing contest. While in Miami, Mick contributed to the NY Times' Names in Bold column and compiled the Miami best-seller list for the Times on a weekly basis. He was a stringer for the British news service Reuters and his stories were published globally. After early retirement from The Herald he wrote 28 full-page, gonzo-style short stories for a weekly newspaper, The Tallahassean. His two-part series on Michael Flatley was cover material for two issues of the UK-based Irish Dancing Magazine. He taught journalism during the afternoons at the University of Miami while working nights for The Herald.
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- PublisherCreateSpace
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1937273393
- ISBN 13 9781937273392
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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