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Robert Lee Murphy is the author of award-winning frontier historical novels set during the turbulent mid-nineteenth century years when the United States evolved into the country that stretches from sea to shining sea. Known as the period of Manifest Destiny, dynamic events unfolded as the result of efforts by visionaries who not only dreamed westward expansion was an inherent right, but who overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to achieve it. Never mind that indigenous people had roamed the land for c
Murphy’s novel, Bozeman Paymaster , was released by Five Star Publishing on June 22, 2022. This is the fascinating story of how in the drive to advance Manifest Destiny the nation blundered into one of its most distressing reverses. Fighting to defend their favorite buffalo hunting grounds, Lakota Chief Red Cloud’s coalition of Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, and Arapahos drove the Army out of the Powder River country of modern-day Wyoming. On a bone-chilling day in December 1866, Captain William Fetterman led e
The concluding phase of Manifest Destiny occurred when the first transcontinental railroad linked the eastern and western portions of the United States enabling the rapid movement of people and goods. Before the railroad, immigrant families endured four excruciating months in a covered wagon to travel from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. After the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, the trip could be made in relative comfort and safety in four days. Murphy’s Iron Horse
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