The Buchmans (Sagebrush Westerns)

Herman Buchman had a university education in Germany before he and his wife emigrated to the United States. In San Francisco, his wife died and left him with an infant son. Having read Karl Marx in Germany, Buchman strove to emancipate the working classes of his adopted country. The rejection and hostility he met with prompted a priest to encourage Herman to give up his son for the child's safety. Solomon Freeman, a freed slave, is shanghaied with his family onto a slave ship in the East, and the family is split apart on the auction block in the South. Solomon tries to escape to find his daughter, but he is lame and cannot run. Herman Buchman buys Solomon for help in his new book publishing business, prepared to teach him to read and pay him for his work. Buchman feels he must give Solomon his freedom, so they can pursue the business to their mutual advantage. Thus begins the saga of the Buchman and Freeman families, whose destinies crossed throughout America's history, until their descendantswere reunited following the Great War.John Henley is the author of 'The Buchmans (Sagebrush Westerns)' with ISBN 9781574904789 and ISBN 1574904787.