A Man Named Smith: The search to identify the man who "did something so bad, he got himself rode out of town."
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Larry, a retired trial lawyer, sets out to solve a family mystery ... uncovering the identity of an ancestor, a man named Smith, who purportedly fathered the first white child born in a deep and uninhabited valley near the Idaho-Montana border, then did "something so bad, he got himself rode out of town." Larry soon identifies the first white child ("they called him Billy") as well as the child's mother ("her name was Henrietta"), but uncovering the identity of the man named Smith proves difficult, and Larry begins to realize that his ancestor's identity is more a well-kept secret than a mystery, a secret that perhaps should remain just that. Benefitting from historical flashbacks, the reader knows more than Larry about Henrietta and the men in her life, particularly those who also found themselves near the junction of two wagon trails where Billy was born. Who is the man named Smith? Larry, who learns a lot about himself along the way, has his opinion. Readers may disagree given what they know. There is an answer, of course ... or is there?
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1699717206
ISBN13:9781699717202
Release Date:December 2019
Publisher:Independently Published
Length:450 Pages
Weight:1.44 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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