Rising from the Ashes

By D. M. Karder

Chicago, 1871. The city burns unrestrained. In a sea of people, a boy stands alone: young David Murphy. Witness through his mind's eye his transformation from a desperate youth to one of the fiercest gunmen of the Wild West.

To capture Murphy's story, an ambitious writer of Western lore is needed. Enter Vernon Shields who wants to publish an account that will define his career. When Shields meets a man now known simply as Longhair, he procures permission to write the gunman's life story.

Rising from the Ashes is a tale of blazing guns that stretched from the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth century. The guns and the people who mastered them made their own destiny. Most men died as fast as they drew the steel. However, a few like Longhair walked the walk and lived to tell of their adventures of quick draws, ambush killings, and the excruciating challenges of life itself.

"Storytelling with no shortage of action, delivers a fresh spin on the turn of the century." - Don G. Porter, Author of Yukon Murders

"Many events molded and transformed this country at the end of the nineteenth century. My goal is to put the reader in the boots of the main character, David Murphy. To provide an experience of what it was like to live life in the 1860s to 1890s, from Chicago's great boom to the end of the Wild West." - Author D. M. Karder

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DWSXYHCS
• ISBN13: 9798310242845
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"