American meteor
By: Norman Lock
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781934137949; 9781934137956
Subjects: Fiction; Railroad travel; History
Description: "In this ... tale of Manifest Destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face-to-face with Crazy Horse, his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the rest of his days"--Page 4 of cover.