Mark Toyman is an orphan being raised by his uncle and aunt on the Kansas frontier in the early 1850s. A pro-slavery mob kills his uncle and force Mark and his aunt to flee for their lives.
A series of adventures take them to California where Mark finds peace, prosperity and contentment as a farmer.
When the Civil War starts he returns east to fight for the Union. Through all these experiences Mark is searching for the inheritance his father promised was waiting for him once he grew up.
A pseudonym used by Leonard Wibberley. All books published with Funk & Wagnalls, New York:
Mark Toyman's Inheritance, 1960 The River of Pee Dee Jack, 1962 Quest of the Otter, 1963 Matt Tyler's Chronicle, 1966 The "Ann and Hope" Mutiny, 1966 Eusebius the Phoenician, 1969