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Follow the Setting Sun is an American odyssey. It’s the story of Rufus Anderson, blacksmith, cavalryman, adventurer and homesteader, who risked a continental journey of over 3,500 miles, from the Allegheny mountains of Pennsylvania to the Nebraska prairies of Indian country, then to the fertile valleys of Oregon, and finally to Idaho.
Rufus made the hard journey by foot, steamboat, horse, wagon, and rail. He was the guardian to his younger sister, protector of his mentally ill older sister, and with his wife Nancy, raised a large family. He died two weeks after his 70th birthday in 1899 at the Soldiers Home in Boise.
Trayler has masterfully used family documents and journals to craft this story, and where information was missing, used newspaper accounts, government documents, and other settlers’ narrations to make Rufus’s narrative vivid and complete.
Brian Patrick Duggan
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About the Author: |
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Jim Trayler, born in Eureka, California, spent his youth in San Francisco and after marriage, lived in Oregon for several years. He and his wife, Carol, now make their home in Georgia. A veteran of the US Navy and retired from a 40 plus year career in Engineering Sales, he has been an avid student of history throughout his life. Jim is the 2nd great grandson of the protagonist of Follow the Setting Sun, Rufus C. Anderson.
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