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A Dandelion for DeReau

by Lansford O'Dell Lilly

503 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-0080; ISBN 1-4251-1679-5; US$30.28, C$34.82, EUR23.61, £15.65

Sheridan is coming! An interracial group flees to West Virginia and decides to coexist; how their generations endure corrupt back-hills justice, the wrath of old-time religious fanaticism, and racial hatred.

About the Book

A story about the American South; how an interracial group of young and old flee Sheridan's burning of the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War, and settle together in West Virginia.

The story is interwoven with clandestine interracial love affairs and marriages, the miracles and bigotry of old-time religions, corrupt back-hills justice, wars, and the aftermath of wars.

Murders, rapes, and other injustices are often never known by the "law", but are met with heavy vengeance in the quiet of the hills. There is also some humor.

This is a tale of days gone by, but not so far gone that we cannot still get glimpses of them; a down-home story about love, honor, faith, courage, patriotism, and loyalty, that follows the group and their descendants from the early 1800's to the late 1940's.

About the Author

Lansford O'Dell Lilly was born at Ball's Gap, West Virginia on May 1, 1939. He joined the United States Marine Corps at age eighteen. After fifteen years with the Marines, he returned to civilian life. He served three tours in Vietnam.

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science/American History, and a Master of Arts Degree in Administrative Services from Northern Michigan University, in Marquette, Michigan. He currently lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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