Robert Story: 2 books

For those who lived in the so-called "Dust Bowl," black blizzards of dust rolled across millions of acres of barren wasteland, once lush with buffalo grass and amber waves of grain. A World War had ended less than two decades before, and the spark for a second one had already been ignited. Conflict...

The year is 1898. In the small coal mining town of Birtley, in northeast England, a sixth child is born to Jonathon and Elizabeth Witherspoon. He will be the first and only boy in a family previously dominated by five female children. It is clearly an auspicious start to a challenging youth, but his...