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Confederate Gold

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Written in the first person, 46 years later, Enoch Brand recounted the troubles he had in Kansas and Arkansas in 1886 trying to protect his wife, Minnie, from her wanderlust to be with other men that she thought more likely to provide her with what she needed, and from those who had a lust for a cache of gold that they imagined Enoch to know the whereabouts of.

Minnie had been badly affected by the murder of her mother by her father and his subsequent suicide. This caused her to lose interest in Enoch and become flirtatious with other men. After Enoch got embroiled in a fight with Minnie's suitor, Enoch, Minnie, his mother, Squatter the dog, and parrot `Bird', joined a wagon train leaving Fort Scott, Kansas, headed for Rogersville, Tennessee where his aunt lived.

Unfortunately for Enoch, Minnie fell for another man on the wagon train and eloped. In his search for Minnie, Enoch found himself a magnet for trouble and in a location where crazed men were seeking buried confederate gold. Would any of those desperate to get their hands on the gold rediscover their humanity and at least first see to the needs of Enoch being reunited with his wife?

Although the underlying plot of this book was excellent I'd a feeling that how the story and characters unfolded could have been made even more compelling. Bird and Minnie, though, were highly entertaining, especially when Minnie declared her love for the tirelessly devoted Enoch one moment and then the next, when her fancy changed, just as quickly snubbed him.

Enoc, do to a flirtatous wife beats the crap out of Herms Vanhorn. He was put in jail and told it might be best if he and his trouble making wife would leave town. On the way to Tennessee Enoc meets ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE. In trying to handle the situation more trouble appears. Actually Enoc doen't start any of the trouble himself. During the story Enoc hears of the lost confederate gold, and like many before him his mind is drawn away from his original goals. This is a good story you will enjoy.