Title: The legend of the Pikesville Cave
Description: Follow a seventeen year old mercenary from Germany in this fiction/fantasy novel as he travels to America, fights in the Civil War by spying and blowing up ammunition trains. Then, through his experience with the newly patented dynamite builds railroads across America. Meet the woman he marries, who he saves from a renegade Indian attack on the western plains. As he settles in the town he established in the hills of Pennsylvania, he discovers a cave with a magic elixir, "Fountain of Youth" and builds a national tourist attraction. All this in a page turner that will keep you cheering for an American hero who is typical of those who built the United States of America in the 19th Century.
Subjects: Teenage boys, Fiction, Caves, American Historical fiction
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century