About Me

Ivel, Kentucky, United States
Doyle Branham (Born in 1950) The son of a coal miner, grew up in the mining town of Weeksbury, Kentucky during the 1950's to 1980's and watched the death of mining in the area. In the early 1990's he moved to Central Kentucky with his wife Karen, where jobs were readily available. After a serious accident in 2006 Mr. Branham begin writing stories to pass the time. Some of the stories he started years ago, but put aside and almost forgot about, as his job consumed most of his time. Now Living in Ivel, Kentucky Doyle spends most of his days writing. "I never thought so many stories could come out of my mind. It's like writing down what I see on T.V.," said Doyle.

CHEROKEE TRADER, Bringing Blackhawk Home

This is the story of Will Ramsey who is known anongst the indians as Horse Trader and amongst his adopted Cherokee family as Cherokee Trader. In 1785 he takes his teenaged brother Abe from their western Virginia farm and heads south into the land of the Cherokee to trade for horses. Along the way they run into many life and death situations that soon make a man out of the green farm boy.
When they reach the village of Chief Ground Thumper Will descovers his friend and blood brother Chief Blackhawk has had his village destoried and most of his people killed. The remaining are forced to move to Ground Thumpers village and Blackhawk is left a Chief without a tribe to lead.
Will talks the chief into moving north to live on the farm of his father and raise his family amongst the whites. This proves to be an interesting jounery for the family of Chief Blackhawk

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