Bestselling author Darryl Brock returns to post Civil War America with Two in the Field, a novel that brings back his beloved protagonist Samuel Clemens Fowler.
Recently returned from a trip through history, where he was a part-time "ballist" with the Cincinnati Red Stockings-baseball's first all-professional team-Sam is trying to readjust to life in the 21st century. But part of him is still back in 1869 Ohio, where he fell in love with a beautiful Irish widow named Cait. Determined to find her again, he sets out on a cross-country journey. Lightning really does strike twice when his car flips over in the middle of a raging storm outside Keokuk, Iowa. Sam awakens in 1875, where he is once again caught up in the tempestuous events of the era. Soon he's riding the rails as a tramp, tracking through Pennsylvania coal mining country, and heading west in a frenzy of gold rush fever before he can reclaim his lost love.
Peopled by such unforgettable historical figures as Samuel Clemens and George Armstrong Custer, and filled with vivid period detail, "Two in the Field" takes readers back to the years when America was young-a must-read for fiction lovers and nostalgia buffs alike.