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Book One

Riding for the JN Brand

Introduction

Born on his grandfather’s cotton farm in Virginia, seventeen-year-old Jeff Nelson and his father are compelled to fight for their civil rights. They join the Union Army at the onset of the Civil War to defend their beloved Virginia against an aggressive Confederate Army. His father soon falls in battle, but Jeff, by his wits, survives many battles. When the South surrenders at Appomattox, young Jeff Nelson, still young in years, and tempered as a war-weary veteran, returns to his farm in Virginia. He plans to continue his life as a farmer, but he discovers his land, that’s belonged to the Nelson’s for three generations, has been sold for past taxes. Now homeless and seeking a new life, Jeff leaves his beloved state of Virginia and heads west, out into the vast untamed land of Texas.