Sour Mash: The Long Time Ago Adventures of an American

By Jonathan Donald

How a plain country man who was a trifle slew-footed and burdened with a peculiar nick-name made his way down the Mississippi from Missouri to New Orleans in the years after the Civil War. He was honest, good natured and an incurable optimist yet through errors of judgment, or the unkindness of others, and sometimes just bad luck, he was caught up in hair-raising adventures that brought him perilously close to death. Yet the Fates always and sometimes miraculously intervened steering him clear of these hazards and then propelled him on to a new and better destiny in the Far West, the California gold fields, Hawaii, the Yukon, and to meetings and contests with some of the West's most famous, and some times, infamous citizens, including Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok and "Little Miss Sure Shot" - Annie Oakley. But hold on! He wasn't done yet! He went to Europe, met Napoleon III, Emperor of France and Otto von Bismarck, the all conquering Prussian Chancellor. Then he took ship to Indo-China which raised the curtain on yet other adventures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520911068
• ISBN13: 9781520911069
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"