LONESOME WHISTLE BLOW: A Novel of Hard Times

In this exciting sequel to Coon Creek, Elias Bunt and his family are once again uprooted from their home - this time by the ravages of the Great Depression. The Bunts leave California after Elias decides to take his wife and family back to Dallas City, the small town in Illinois where they were born. But his youngest son is restless. Pushed by the boredom of the farm, and the grinding reality of hard times, young Rafe Bunt bids his family farewell and leaves Hancock County to make his own way through the grim and uncertain landscape of America in the 1930s.

By the author of Seasons of Harvest, The Awakening Land, Shadows on the Land, Journey, Unlike Any Land You Know and Coon Creek. Jim Vesely was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He and his wife now live in the small village of Corrales, New Mexico. Jim is a member of the Western Writers of America.