J.J.R.

Ramey

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The Jonathan Frederick Shelby Western Series
Book 1
 HE WAS A BLACK MAN WITH A DREAM - AND THE BOLD DARING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN

 

Brave Union soldier-scout Jon Shelby had completed many a dangerous mission during the last desperate days of the Civil War. But none was as perilous as the wild adventure that sent him into the brutal and untamed West.

 

He had already survived bullets and death mobs. But now Shelby would need every ounce of strength and skill to survive. Pursued by cutthroat outlaws, Shelby challenged the raw and violent wilderness where killers were never far and death was always too close-and blazed a trail of triumph and glory never to be forgotten....

                                                        A children’s novel  by
                        J.J.R. Ramey and Carolle Desroches Ramey

Growing up on a farm in Ghana, West Africa has its ups and downs….especially when the farm grows beans that will become yummy chocolate.

But one scary night 9-year old Sunya Yendi has to face her worst fears: thunder and lightning; and not only that, the dreaded evil Fetish Priest is on the loose, roaming the “chocolate fields”, searching for prey, especially innocent children.

    Coming Soon . . .

 

Life for 12-year old Johnny Phillips gets tougher to handle as he grows older.  And nothing in this world gets his dander up like the escapades and 'bright ideas' of his 8-year old brother, Billy, whose brainstorm is to become of all things: a cowboy, in Brooklyn.

 

Johnny keeps his eye on Billy, who is constantly fighting with his 'enemy' schoolmate Carla Levinson.  The real trouble begins when Billy refuses to goto the Wild West Black Rodeo because he is secretly afraid of being eaten by a horse with big, long, icky nasty teeth.

 

But Billy has a change of heart about the Rodeo when his best pal. Tommy Grimes, shows him The Black Cowboy Book, featuring legendary Wild West cowboy Nat Love, otherwise known as 'Deadwood Dick.'

 

Billy, impressed, quickly changes his name,a nd transforms himself into Brooklyn New York's meanest, roughest, toughest, rootin', tootin' cowboy, 'Deadwood Billy, The Cowboy (Sort Of!). 


And the shenanigans begin.