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by Frank KelsoPublish: Oct 18, 2017Series: The Apprentice SeriesHistorical Fiction Teen & Young Adult

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Nigel must choose between entering an orphanage or entering an apprenticeship on a mule train.
To Nigel’s horror, Comanches slaughter Reverend John Blackthorn and his family before his father preaches one word. Nigel survives by following his mother’s instructions to hide in a hollow tree. Nigel prays for God to send help. ... Instead, Pascal LeBrun, a roaming muleteer, rides to the smoke of the burning wagons to find Nigel, who believed cooking is a woman’s work. Alone, he doesn’t even know how to cook to survive. Pascal solves that problem.
Plump, lazy, and spoiled, Nigel enters an unwelcome new world–work or starve. He finds survival is the way of life on the prairie. Worse yet, English is a little used third language. Riding across the prairie in a wagon bored him. The Comanche attack terrified him. Working dawn to dark on the mule train became drudgery.
Two hundred miles later, when the mule train reaches the first white settlement, Pascal gives Nigel a choice: enter an orphanage, or enter an apprenticeship on the mule train for a piddling wage.
Years later, Nigel wonders if the orphanage would have been easier.

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Frank Kelso has won several prizes for his writing. Frank’s short story Tibby’s Hideout in The Posse anthology that Frank edited and published is a finalist for the Western Fictioneer’s Peacemaker Award and a Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award for 2017. Frank's full length novel have received acclaim and ha... ve 350+ reviews. North in the Spring, Book #2 in the Apprentice is available on Amazon. South in the Fall, Book #3 in the Apprentice series was released in Nov 2019. Boo#3 won the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for western novel. read more

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Book Detail
Title The Apprenticeship of Nigel Blackthorn
Series The Apprentice Series
Author Frank Kelso
ASIN B07627JJGM
Publish Date 18, Oct 2017
Language English
Page Count 302
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