The Three Sentinels
Join young Jesse Basham in his amazing life on a journey starting from Missouri on the 1857 Francher wagon train headed for California. It all came to an end at Mountain Meadows, Utah, where the entire train was massacred. Left for dead, Jesse was nursed back to life by a clan of Paiute Indians. He was accepted into their tribe and renamed Mericat, since the Paiute language only had two words for white men. The first was Momen, for the Mormons who came into the land as settlers. The second was Mericats, for everyone else.
While the wonders of a historic wagon train trip along the Oregon trail and the life among the Paiute are a fascinating read, it is the deceit of those who did the attack and the causes for the massacre which makes this historical novel important.
Fred M. Civish Jr.
Fred M. Civish Jr. is a professional journalist living in Ogden, Utah. He began writing as an author/photographer for trade journals and has over a thousand articles published in over a hundred trade journals. He has three books published: The Sunnyside War, about the first nationwide coal strike (600,000 miners went on strike) and the killings that occurred during it; Losing Weight for Life (Eating What You Like on the RMR Diet). He used to weigh over 300 lbs and now weighs 175; and his autobiography Out of the Gulch onto the Mountain Top, which has nothing but five-star ratings on Amazon and reads like a novel as it traces him through life.
His broad range of interests besides his love of history and Indian culture, which resulted in this book, include stand-in and bit parts in a number of movies and TV-series, parachute jumping and abalone diving in the Pacific.
Austin Macauley Publishers
