Dwight W Hunter: 6 books

The recent Civil War had little effect on people living in the hills of Western Appalachia where Kate was born. Women struggled through a weary life in a corn-liquor culture dominated by hypocritical men holding to the tradition that women should be kept barefoot, silent, busy and pregnant. These...

The character of Francine was introduced in and played an active part in the novel, Mei Ling. At the time Francine owned a Social Club in the gold town of Florence, Idaho Territory and became the life long friend of a tough little Chinese girl, Mei Ling. Bernard DuMont was an autocratic eastern industrialist...

Lorrenda’s father, a Civil War Veteran, and Benton’s sole lawyer was shot dead while sitting in his office chair by a young illiterate member of an inbred wandering family. Befriended by Sheriff Bert Malcom, he became Lorrenda’s life long confident who taught her shoot and care for modern firearms...

Becoming a successful businessman during frontier days was a daunting task. For a single woman to succeed in this environment she required an extra measure of smarts, spunk and sometimes straight-shooting. Ruby had all these attributes in addition to being outspoken and a nonconformist. Ruby married...

Little is written about the contribution Chinese men and women made in building frontier America. One of their major achievements was servings as laborers to build the Central Pacific Railroad tracks across the rugged Sierra Mountains in California. Chinese men became miners and extracted a major...

The character of Berth was introduced in an earlier novel, Kate, when she became office manager of Modern Investigation Agency.Bertha was born, as her mother was dying, during the pre Civil War era, in the isolated community of Coopers Bend, Kentucky; located on the Ohio River, where her illiterate...