BOOK PHOTOS
WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING
The story is moving and compelling...
we are reminded who we are as a
country and where we have been.
- Jack L. Kennedy - Joplin Independent
ABOUT THE BOOK
Michael Quinn (1846 - 1934), a life of adventure and tragedy in the Old West
• Survivor of Ireland's "Great Hunger"
• Child laborer in English textile mill
• Irish immigrant to the United States
• Fenian fighter for Ireland's independence
• Bullwhacking freighter to western mining camps
• Helped construct the Transcontinental railroad
• Open-range cattleman in conflict with Native Americans
• His life transformed by the massacre at Wounded Knee
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