Nothing Lives Forever

About the Book

Sarah Johnson is a pioneer woman living on hardscrabble farm in Colorado is the fall of 1855. A small band of Cheyenne attack the farm. They kill her husband and her mother. Sarah is captured by Moktow ("Black Horse") the leader of the band. He takers Sarah back to where his tribe is camped at Sand Creek. His mother offers to sell Sarah to the highest bidder in retaliation for the murder of Moktow's father by two white men. Moktow buys her and saves her from enslavement by a man who only wants her for sex. Sarah refuses to become Moktow's slave. She forces chief "Black Kettle" to marry them. American soldiers attack the camp when Moktow and the other warriors are lured away by false rumor of a buffalo herd nearby. Sarah survived the attack. She sent into virtual slavery in the nearby town of Julesburg. She is there when Moktow and a a coalition of warriors attack the town in retaliation for the massacre at Sand Creek.

About the Author

Charles L. Taylor began writing sports at the age of 14 in 1942 for the PUBLIC OPINION in his hometown of Westerville. Ohio. He was also a "stringer" for the OHIO STATE JOURNAL of Columbus, Ohio. He attended the School of Journalism at the Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, where he was a photographer and sports writer. Late her graduated from the EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He wrote columns for newspapers in Missouri, North Carolina, West Virginia and Maryland during his more than fifty years in the ministry. He served as a ;columnist for the DUNDALK EAGLE in Dundalk, Maryland, and as an editor, columnist, reporter and photographer for the EAST COUNTY TIMES in Essex Maryland,, following his retirement from the ministry.