Just John, Reg Quist
Just John, Reg Quist
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Just John
A Slave's Brave Journey To Freedom

Author: Reg Quist

Narrator: Michael “Cowboy Mike” Searles

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2021

Synopsis

FROM SLAVE TO RANCHMAN – A HISTORICAL WESTERN BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.In return for his freedom, a slave is tasked with the job of delivering a valuable stallion to a horse farm in Tennessee. The Civil War is dying down and the roads are dangerous but with some help, the horse is delivered and the slave sees freedom.Wishing to be freed from any remembrance of the slave farm, John has a last name that he refuses to use. John’s skill with horses opens doors for him which eventually takes him to Fort Worth, Texas. More open doors, over a period of years, find him on a cattle drive to Montana, followed by a second drive into Alberta, Canada. From there, he chooses the name Ware. John Ware stays in Alberta, where he becomes a much loved and respected Alberta rancher.The John Ware story is well known, however since he never learned to read or write he left no historic record of his background.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel on August 10, 2022

This is a Historical Fiction telling of the life of John Ware one of the most famous black cowboys of the old west. This book is the start of Johns journey from Slavery to ranch owner is Canada. It is written in an engaging style though the written accent of john can be rough at times and I plowed t......more

Goodreads review by J.E. on August 28, 2022

I feel that Just John is one of the author's best. Steeped in history and set at the end of the Civil War, it traces the freedom of the slave, John. Thrown into a world of prejudice and mixed feelings, he makes his way to fit into an ever-changing world. Working for a cattle ranch, he finds his pass......more

Goodreads review by Donadee's Corner on October 24, 2021

Reg Quist – Bk 1 - Just John – Reviewed 10/24/21 – Read 10/11-12/21 It’s almost the end of the war and John has been given an important mission, then he will be free! In the last days of the Civil War John’s owner gave him a very important mission, he was to take a stallion and deliver him to a buyer......more

Goodreads review by Charles on June 01, 2021

Not a fast moving series of events, but one that successfully portrays compassion and empathy from beginning to end! I was, most certainly, held in complete of him, as he, although being a slave, he pulled useful by his boot straps and found an exciting future for himself, overcoming one hardship af......more

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