A New Eden

About the Book

A New Eden takes a young man, Gary Moore, through the Civil War and then through his next fifteen to twenty years. Gary is educated while driving a supply wagon during the war. His helper was Prof. Adam Stewart from Brown University. He lectures Gary for the next three years as if he were in the classroom. Gary is elated to get an education. Stewart had taught ethics and the Bible at Brown and gave Gary the foundation for his life.

Gary meets a woman in St. Louis whose husband is sick and being treated in New Orleans. The woman wants her seventeen-year-old daughter, Mickey, to visit him and hires Gary to escort her there. During their travel they fall in love. Gary asked her father, shortly before he dies, for her hand in marriage and they are married when they return to St. Louis.

After her father dies, Mickey finds she is the heir to a plantation that her uncle owned. She asks Gary to run the plantation and he does. He puts to use all of what Professor Stewart taught him and creates a place that he later calls Eden.

Later, after much sadness, Gary goes out west to Wyoming where he meets Kit Casson, a protégé of Kit Carson. He is a guide and leads Gary though several to exciting adventures.

About the Author

William Post is the author of 19 novels with a variety of genres. He is a professional civil engineer, licensed with the state of California. He took an early retirement and moved to Northern California where he started his writing career. He is a traveler and has been in nearly every state and has visited nearly every national park and cemetery.

Post was reared in West Texas, educated at Texas A. & M. and served in the United States Navy. After his service he became a surveyor with the Southern Pacific Railroad which took him to the wilds of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. He picked up the lore of those areas as can be seen in his novels of those areas.

He is a student of the World Wars and the Civil War and generated several novels of those eras. His wife was born in Germany and they have visited there several times. He developed an interest of that area and several of his novels uses Germany as the central setting.

Post is an Evangelic Christian and this thread is seen through his novels. He now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife and extended family.