The Americans

<div class=Section1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>The Americans contains 13 short storiesabout the adventures and personal struggles of Americans involved in thefounding and building of their great nation.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>The tales describe the personal achievements of menand women who left their known worlds to travel to America to contribute theirskills sweat blood and sometimes their lives to create productive livesfor themselves and their families. </span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>The McKinneys emigrated from Scotland to Ireland andthen to the Colonies and westward through the Allegheny Mountains where somestopped and put down roots. Others in the prolific clans moved into IndianaMissouri and Texas and beyond. </span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>They were joined in their adventures by neighborsfrom the eastern mountains as they fought against foreign powers hostile Indiansand lawbreakers. </span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>The lives of Youngers Creagers Lomaxes and otherscombined their personal stories to create a collection of personal strugglestriumphs and failures that drove and led America into growth and worldleadership of the 20th and 21st centuries.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>The great events recorded in American history werenot abstract historical happenings but part of the daily lives of our ancestorsfeatured in The Americans. </span></p></div>