The Westward Sagas: Historical Fiction by David Bowles
The Westward Sagas tell the story of the Mitchell family’s 100-year odyssey west from Pennsylvania to Texas.
The story begins in North Carolina with Spring House and moves forward to Tennessee in Adam’s Daughters. The series will continue with Book 3 in the spring of 2012.
The author’s scrupulous research ensures historical accuracy, and the storytelling talents he inherited from his ancestors make the stories exciting and entertaining for his readers. Everything in the Westward Sagas is compatible with known history. However, because there are gaps in recorded history, David has imagined what might have happened and included these imagined events in the story. Everything could have happened as described in his stories; however, no one knows if everything did happen as described.
Although the books are written for an adult audience, they are appropriate for young adults as well.
Spring House
The Mitchells just wanted to be left alone to farm their land, practice their faith, and raise their family. But their response to the extraordinary circumstances of frontier life, politics, and war made heroes of these ordinary citizens. Adam fought the British, while his mother, wife, and children endured deprivation and danger on the family farm in the midst of the battle. The story of Adam's two loves--his first wife Jennetta who died bearing their son and his second wife Elizabeth who bore him twelve more children--creates the human backdrop to the historical events of Revolutionary War times. Learn More»
Spinning Tales
Author and tale-spinner David Bowles is available to speak to adults, youth, and children on a variety of topics related to history and genealogy. He entertains as much as he educates, and his programs appeal to all ages and groups large and small in casual or formal settings. Fill out the contact form on the speaker page for more information. Learn More»
Adam's Daughters
In Adam’s Daughters: Book 2, Peggy
Mitchell, a survivor of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, grows up in Jonesborough, Tennessee during the tumultuous first twenty years of the nation’s existence. Though haunted by memories of war, she matures into strong, independent young woman who is courted by Andrew Jackson
and who has a freed slave as her best friend. Her younger brothers and sisters become her surrogate children and students. Together the children of Adam and Elizabeth take on renegade Indians, highwaymen, and the hardships of an untamed land. Learn More»