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The Long Journey : A Christian Historical Fiction Novel Kindle Edition

by Cliff Ball (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
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The Long Journey is a Christian historical fiction novel.

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law authorizing the removal of southern tribes to Indian Territory in the west. In 1838, the Trail of Tears occur when the remaining people are forcibly removed and marched a thousand plus miles on foot.

George Massey, a twenty year old Cherokee, finds himself being force-marched to Indian Territory during the winter of 1838. Eventually, he gets lost in the Kentucky woods and finds a family who takes him in. The novel follows his adventures as he travels west on the Oregon/California Trail and gets involved in all sorts of historical events from the 1840's to 1850's.
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    March 30, 2015
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Check out Cliff's other series:The End Times Saga (Christian fiction) - seven novels and two short storiesNew Frontier (sci-fi, alt history, time travel) - two novels plus a combined novel of the twoPerilous Times (Christian fiction) - as of October, 2015, 1 novel so far

About the Author

Cliff Ball lives in Texas, born in Arizona, and is a Christian. Has two BA's and a Certificate in Technical Communications. Has published sixteen novels and four short stories. Won third in high school for a short story written in Creative Writing class for a young adult magazine. Visit his website to find out more about him and his novels: cliffball.net

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00UVXEOUI
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2573 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 257 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

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Cliff Ball lives in Texas, born in Arizona, is a Christian and is Baptist. Has two BA's, and a Certificate in Technical Communications from the University of North Texas. Has published more than fourteen novels(as of October 2015) and four short stories. Won third in high school for a short story written in Creative Writing class for a young adult magazine.

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Books:

The End Times Saga (Christian end times):

Times of Turmoil (2013)

Times of Trouble (2012)

Times of Trial (2012)

Jon Ryan (2013)

Xavier Doolittle (2013)

Times of Rebellion (formerly Timothy Phillips)(2013)

Times of Destruction (2014)

Times of Judgment - (2014)

Times of Tribulation - (2014)

Christian Historical Fiction

The Long Journey (2015)

Perilous Times Series (Christian end times)

The Falling Away (2015)

The Great Deception (2016)

The Great Tribulation (2016)

Others:

Out of Time - Time Travel (2008)

Don't Mess With Earth - alt history (2009 - no longer available)

The Usurper - political thriller (2010 - no longer available)

Shattered Earth -alternate history/fantasy/scifi (2010)

Voyager and the Aliens (short story) -sci-fi (2011)

Dust Storm (short story) -western (2011)

Beyond the New Frontier (sci-fi, alternate history, time travel) - combo of New Frontier & Final Frontier (2012)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty quick read, stated plainly.
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2016
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I liked this book very much because it very much highlighted Christian reading. But I can not say it was well written as a story. Basically it stated facts as the author made them up or researched historically. Sadly it did not get you attached with the characters. Although I think I might have liked George and Ellie I really did not get to know them. I was not presented with who they really are. I wouldn't buy the second book as I haven't been given much interest in finding out what happens to them.
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margaret sperry
5.0 out of 5 stars very good
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2015
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I thoroughly enjoy the early western- Native American period of our history. I have read very little of our dark history of the "Trail of tears" lots of dates and events of history notation. The characters were developed to be real. A very good read,
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4.0 out of 5 stars Recommend this Christian Historical Story
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2015
Very interesting book! The Long Journey has a good amount of biblical foundations. It has a lot of very interesting historical events throughout it and just a bit of romance...but I would classify it more historically based.
I was gifted this book in exchange for my honest review.
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Ragmom
1.0 out of 5 stars if you like rambling essays, this book is for you
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2015
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This is a story about a unremarkable Cherokee Indian. He suffers through the trail of tears, is saved by a Christian family, travels to Oklahoma to look for his Indian family, travels back to Kentucky. He courts and marries a white woman, is persecuted by bigoted neighbors, leaves on a cross country wagon train, settles in California, sells that store to race back to Kentucky because her father is dying. They arrive in Kentucky too late, the town is still bigoted and is now picking on their children. The book ends with the family leaving for Oklahoma to settle in Indian country.

That's it. Decide if you want to wade through this.
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Granny Gamer
3.0 out of 5 stars The Long Journey developed into the Slow Read .
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2015
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The story line is good a lot of potential to be an interesting book However ... it seemed like the author was rushing through it and didn't really develop any cohesive plot to the story . The dialogue was unreal . I have serious doubts that in the 1800's anyone used the term ' praying a hedge of protection ' , although I could me wrong . Having heard many Catholic prayers I know they always started and ended with ' in the name of the Father , Son , and Holy Ghost ' ; not so with the Catholic priest on the wagon train . She thinks she may be pregnant so they run off to tell the others ... also not very believable for that era . I guess my problem with this book is that it was listed as a Christian Historical fiction but I missed the ' historical ' aspect . There was a good opportunity to deal with bigotry and prejudices but it never developed into much either . The best part of the book is it is a good clean read without any vulgarity , violence or lewd sexual content . It is a book I would feel comfortable handing over to a 6 th grader to read .
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Allison Kohn author
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting historical novel
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2015
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There was a lot of research behind this book. It has some very interesting historical facts throughout that make it an interesting read. I recommend it to history buffs everywhere.
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Jesus!3!
5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Adventures of George the Cherokee Indian and his family !
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2015
I thought it was a very fascinating historical Novel about how the Cherokee Indians were treated was such a shame the way our government leaders acted then and in some ways are still treating them and some other people in the same shameful ways. I felt that he had put in a lot of study time exploring all this data for his novel research and made this history a lot more fun and interesting than my American a History class teacher did. I enjoyed it for that fact besides not having to take any exams on it afterwards only asked to do this review for him which I am doing right now and an honest one. I think this should be a five star rated ebook. I would recommend this ebook for any teenager and up who likes to read such a interesting account of what it was like back then for the Indians especially the Cherokee Indians and their children and who may enjoy this In a story form as I did. Great job Cliff! By Angela
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Diana A.
5.0 out of 5 stars History brought to life!
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2015
If only history was taught this way! I was brought right into the wagon train trying to get to the west. Cliff Ball does a great job of bringing you right to the scene of action. I realized that I was being walked through the "Trail of Tears" as he was bringing me through the events. I never realized the hardships that early Americans faced or how the Indians were mistreated and this book brought that to light in a wonderful story that is written so clearly, it is like seeing the movie in your head! I can't wait for more! I was given a copy of this book for my honest review.
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