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The Apprenticeship of Nigel Blackthorn

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The Apprenticeship of Nigel Blackthorn

Nigel must choose between entering an orphanage or entering an apprenticeship on a mule train.
The APPRENTICESHIP OF NIGEL BLACKTHORN is a coming-of-age story set in the American West of 1853. The story relates the adventures of a thirteen-year-old English boy whose missionary parents came to convert the wild heathens to the way of Christ.
Comanches slaughter Reverend John Blackthorn and his family before he preaches one word. Nigel survives by following his motherâ€™s instructions to hide in a hollow tree. Pascal LeBrun, a roaming muleteer, rides to the smoke of the burning wagons to find Nigel, the lone survivor.
Plump, lazy, and spoiled, Nigel enters an unwelcome new worldâ€“work or starve. He finds survival is the way of life on the prairie. Worse yet, English is a little used third language. 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.

Country	USA
Author	Frank Kelso
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780990602583
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Beachfront Press
Manufacturer	Beachfront Press
NumberOfPages	302
PublicationDate	2017-10-18
Publisher	Beachfront Press
ReleaseDate	2017-10-18
Studio	Beachfront Press

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