Separated by the War

About the Book

In my first book, Separated by the War: The Cave, ten-year-old brothers are separated during a battle between Yankee and Rebel forces on their isolated farm. The boys are then raised in distant homes. They are reunited during a conflict with the Flower Society ten years later. Unknown to them, one of their sisters survived. Separated by the War: Steamboats tells the story of the survivor of that tragic battle on their farm. Believing that she is the sole survivor, she enlists the aid of a tribe of Comanche Indian traders to help her on the farm and to escape the renegades that raided the war-torn land during the war as she tries to find her father’s oldest brother in the Big Bend of Texas.

About the Author

Richard D. Arnold Jr. had a forty-year career in the health-care field, ten years as a microbiologist, and thirty years in hospital administration in small rural hospitals in small rural Texas communities. He received his BA degree from the University of Texas and MA from Texas Christian University and is a retired fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has traveled extensively in Texas, Arizona, and Tennessee, hiking through the deserts of Texas and Arizona and the hills and creeks of Tennessee. He is currently retired and lives with his wife, Janice, of fifty years plus in a small rural community southwest of San Antonio, Texas.