Chet Hagan
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It was a time of wonder and excitement, a time of beginnings: The British have just signed the surrender at Yorktown, and Charles Dupree, uncertain even of his age, has walked away from a French ship and into a new country. Here, no one will care about his background here, in America, all things will be possible for the French street urchin. All he will have to do is work, and that does not frighten Charles.
Growing with the nation, Charles moves...
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Charles Dewey is dead. His beloved daughter, Alma May Dewey, runs Bon Marche. Under her firm control, the stud farms and racing string are even more successful that Charles could have hoped.
, the 1850s are an unsettled time. Even the illustrious Deweys cannot ignore the debates over states' rights and slavery-especially when the stories are carried on the front pages of their own newspapers.
The fires of the Civil War will reach even the pillared...