Westward Wagons: An American Family Journey

By Russ Goodenough

*UPDATED April 2023* The story of an epic trek from England to California, braving the natives and a continent to help forge a nation. This is the story of one family's battles and contributions in the making of America. Arriving from England in the Great Puritan Migration, they fought in the almost non-stop Indian wars that involved the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was brutal warfare as family members were tomahawked, scalped and their bodies mutilated, some marched to Canada never to return. Over a hundred family militia soldiers fought in the King Phillips War, the King Williams War, the Queen Anne's War, the King Georges War, the Wabanaki Confederacy Wars, and the French and Indian War. Twenty fought on the "Battle Road" between Lexington and Concord. Over a hundred fought with General George Washington in the Continental Army against the forces of the mighty British Army. The family cleared the forests, tilled the soil, raised large families, defended their homesteads and were part of the American movement west that helped create a nation. Follow the family journey across a continent by rail, by stagecoach, and finally by covered wagon on a final 1,700-mile trek across the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the deadly hot Mojave Desert. It is a tale of community defense, steadfast determination, absolute heroism and supreme sacrifice. This book describes the bloody massacres and atrocities that were commonly committed by the Indians, the French, the Dutch, and the English. Sad tales of inhumanity that were hallmarks of the violence and brutality so commonly shown in the early development of the United States. Find out about the widespread white slavery, red slavery, and England banishing its poor, its criminals, and its prisoners-of-war to America. These are never-before published, first-hand accounts of events that forged America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C1JJZB9N
• ISBN13: 9798388003133
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 7.5"