Lizzie and the Colonel

By Jim Torpey

Lizzie and the Colonel is an engaging personal family story of the author's great-grandmother, Lizzie Monahan, an indentured Irish lass of seventeen, who came alone to America in 1880, worked off her passage, fulfilled a dream to go West to open a boarding house/restaurant in the minefields of Colorado and then went on to Denver where she opened several "gentleman rooming houses" and built an apartment house that is on the National Registry of Historic Places.The book also tells the untold story of her relationships with the notorious Civil War guerrilla fighter, Colonel John Mosby and his son, both of whom she befriended while they stayed in her establishments for many years. The author has interwoven the family story with a well-researched history of the dynamic years in Colorado between statehood and the Great Depression to create a stirring saga of genealogical fiction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1539903834
• ISBN13: 9781539903833
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"