Donald Wayne Manning

A Full Measure of Courage Donald Wayne Manning

Abigail Becker awoke with a sudden jolt of fear, the room was dark and for a few moments she couldn't place where she was. Then, somewhere off in the distance she heard a gunshot and suddenly it all came back with a rush, she was in the boomtown of Virginia City Nevada. She had been dreaming and it had been a worrisome dream. Her memory activated and brought her worries to the forefront. She had lost her man, the love of her life back when her father accused him of being a thief, of throwing in with the two Mexican vaqueros and stealing his cattle. How foolish she had been to believe her father. That belief had cost her the man she loved. Luke Scarbrough's words of two years ago were still fresh in her memory, "I'd not marry a woman who didn't believe in me." Four days ago she learned the truth, Luke had been innocent. Now two years after he had left her she had tracked him here to Virginia City only to learn that he had long since gone east to fight in the war between the North and the South. Through his friends and family she was in the process of getting his mailing address, but would he answer her letter when she sent it? Would he ever consider taking her back? Was he even still alive? ******** This is the epic saga of the life and times of the Scarbrough family during the era of the American Civil War.