The historical stories are based on Early Explorations in the Americas, the Jamestown Colony of Virginia, Indians of the Americas, Colonial and U.S. history, and the U.S. Civil War.

In writing stories about the Jamestown Colony of Virginia, I discovered that what happened to the Indians before the Colony was vital to understanding the European colonization of the Americas. The colonialists essentially had to take or buy the land from the Indians, who were not passive observers.

The "French and Indian War" led to the American Revolution, which was only won by the colonists with France's...