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<div><b>From a former US Assistant Surgeon General comes the epic tale of a young manâEuros struggle to survive a journey across America during the Civil War.</b><br><br>Told by his stepmother that he alone had been responsible for the death of his mother, abandoned by the earlier departure of his father for the California 1849 goldfields, and threatened with being locked in a cage with his stepmotherâEuros psychotic brother, eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin âEuro²B .F." Windes decides to abandon home and trail his fatherâEuros path. Thus begins a trip of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States.<br><br>B.F. spends the next eleven years in gold rush towns in CaliforniaâEuro"first as a barber, then as a physicianâEuros assistantâEuro"before departing for the Caribbean at age nineteen, where he becomes a blockade-runner during the American Civil War. At warâEuros end, he discovers that the men he had been dealing with were nothing more than common murderers and thievesâEuro"Bushwhackers.<br><br>He travels to the Missouri Ozarks where he meets the girl of his dreams. But their romance is threatened when he finds himself battling a man from his past in order to safeguard his family and his future.<br><br><i>Orphan Hero</i>, based on the life of the authorâEuros great-grandfather in the mid-nineteenth century, is a tale of courage and perseverance in the face of incredible hardship.<br></div>