War Drums

Pioneer Spirit #7

by Earle Jay Goodman

Friends with tribal Chiefs, Territorial Governors, Army Generals, Cavalry Majors, and the Mormon Prophet. A loving family and a newborn son. What’s wrong with living in a time of post-war peace?

Change.

Connal Lee found the world about him changing faster than he could keep up. Life in the Territories of Oregon and Utah in 1859 will never be the same again. Gold and silver discoveries in Virginia City and Pike’s peak brought swarms of prospectors and settlers crossing the intermountain west, creating even more friction with the Indians. Slavery debates in the eastern States turned violent. The Army began sending their troops east, leaving the west undefended.

But Connal Lee and his family only wished for a brief return to their traditional past and celebrate the midsummer Sun Dance.

Read about how Connal Lee deals with change and learns tribal dances today.

203 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 3, 2020

About the author

Born in Murtaugh, Idaho, Earle grew up on the stories of his great-great-grandparents, some of the very first pioneers and settlers of the Intermountain West in the 1850s. A few years ago, Earle felt inspired to tell some of his ancestors' stories. He didn't want to write a history or biography, so he began working on a historically correct fictional gay romance set back in the 1910s - which grew into the 1,562-page Discreet Trilogy.

Earle loves reading a good story and is a sucker for romance novels. His favorite genres often have a regular guy struggling to overcome adversity who somehow manages to find love and success in the end.

Earle lived most of his adult life in Manhattan and the Hamptons before customers took him to Florida in 1997. He has been in a loving relationship with his life partner and business partner, Jimmy, since 1979. They married in 2009 on their thirtieth anniversary. They still live together – enjoying their work and sharing life.