Description Blue Skies of El Dorado tells the poignant Civil War love story of Obadiah Bradford and his beautiful slave of mixed blood, Penelope. com/Carl JBarger. "I love history and I love the Civil War." Publisher\'s website: http: //sbpra.
He resides with his wife, Lena, in Conway, Arkansas.
He is also the author of a two-volume history of Cleburne County and its people.
Barger is the author of four other historical fiction novels: Swords and Plowshares, Mamie, An Ozark Mountain Girl of Courage, and Dark Clouds over Alabama.
He spent thirty-eight years in the public schools in Arkansas, thirty-three as a superintendent of schools.
Barger grew up in the Ozark Mountains of Cleburne County, Arkansas.
Carl J.
Blue Skies is a must-read for anyone interested in this fascinating chapter of American history.
The novel presents love and hope in the best definition as it deals with tragedy and triumph in the Old South.
Obadiah\'s Christian beliefs and his deep faith in God see him through the troubled times.
Under the Blue Skies of El Dorado, Obadiah and Penelope\'s love blossoms, their family grows, the Civil War ends, and freedom comes to slaves in the South.
In this quiet, peaceful town, Obadiah opens up a medical practice and becomes the town\'s beloved doctor.
They purchase a 600-acre plantation named Three Oaks, situated a few miles from El Dorado in Southwest Arkansas.
To escape the stigma of hate and prejudice, Obadiah and Penelope marry and move away from Alabama with their mothers and several slaves to El Dorado, Arkansas.
Their tale began in the first book of the series, Dark Clouds over Alabama.
Description Blue Skies of El Dorado tells the poignant Civil War love story of Obadiah Bradford and his beautiful slave of mixed blood, Penelope
