The Legend of the Pikesville Cave

CreateSpace, 2015. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x0x9. Brand new from author, an exceptional copy. 2015 Trade Paperback. iv, 235, [1] pp. In this fiction/fantasy novel follow a seventeen year old mercenary from Germany as he fights in the Civil War, blows up ammunition trains, and through his experience with the newly patented dynamite builds railroads across America. Along the way he discovers a cave with a magic elixir, "Fountain of Youth" and builds a national attraction near the town he established in the hills of Pennsylvania. Meet the woman he marries, who he saved from a renegade Indian attack on the western plains. All this in a page turner that will keep you cheering for an American hero who is typical of those who built the United States of America in the 19th century.