A Ghost Tribe

About the Book

At the age of thirteen, Ben Carson (Lee) was on a wagon train that was ambushed by Indians. Miraculously, he was saved from the slaughter when he was inadvertently locked under the seat of their wagon. He was the lone survivor. After burying his parents and two sisters, he continued west on foot. He met an Indian who had been kicked out of his tribe and left to die. The Indian had been schooled by missionaries and spoke excellent English. The two became friends and decided to form their own tribe. Being that the Indian’s first name started with Le, Ben decided that both of them should have the last name of Lee. Ben called the Indian Chief Lee. At the first town they encounter, they found a girl named Cary Elder. She had been sold to several men but now had been kicked out because she had sores all over her caused by chicken pox. Ben befriends her, and she took the name Cary Lee. They pick up several other people to enlarge their tribe. They reach Denver and make their fortune. The saga is filled with adventures and love stories. As in nearly all Post’s novels, they are kept to around two hundred pages as to not make his books a project, just an interesting read for a couple of nights.

About the Author

William Post was reared in West Texas and educated at Texas A & M as an engineer. He then served in the U. S. Navy. After his service he became a surveyor for the Southern Pacific Railroad. This took him to the wilds of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California where he immersed himself in the lore of those areas. He saw sites that few white people had seen at those times. Some are completely gone, now. As Post has been to many of the places he writes about, the reader sees what he saw and felt. Most of Post’s working life was as a Civil Engineer. He retired as the Chief Engineer of the Long Beach, California Water Department. Taking an early retirement, he moved to northern California and began his writing career. He has written books with a variety of genres. He is a student of both world wars and the Civil War which generated some of the themes of his books. Post’s wife is from Germany. From visits with her family he wrote several books with Germany as the central setting. He has published nineteen books thus far, but has ten more in the process of publishing. Post is an evangelic Christian and you can see the tread of his belief in the fabric of his books. He now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife and extended family.