Sammy Blue Eyes

<p>In May 1888 thirteen year old Sammy Smyle decides to leave the orphanage where he lives and to join Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.</p><p>Set at the turn of the Twentieth century <strong><em>Sammy Blue Eyes</em></strong> tells of a boy following the popular maxim to “Go west and live your dream.” Orphan Sammy takes this to heart as he abandons the orphanage and his friends to sail to America.</p><p>This story of a young runaway of White English and Native American heritage is a different take on the traditional western. You’ll find ‘cowboys and Indians’ but in Hull not the American West. These Lakota are the heroes who rescue Sammy from a Yorkshire town where all the other faces are white.</p><p>Tragedy and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show bring Sammy back to Hull sixteen years later to find his lost sister his good friends and to settle an old score.</p><p>Author <strong>Frank Beill</strong> who grew up near the Hull fish docks brings Sammy’s story the Wild West Show and Hull to life in an engaging historical novel.</p>