Best selling author Michael Ross is a lover of history and great stories. He's a retired software engineer turned author, with three children and five grandchildren, living in Newton, Kansas with his wife of forty years. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, and still loves Texas. The main character of "Across the Great Divide", William Dorsey Crump, is one of the founders of Lubbock and Shallowater, Texas. Michael knew Will's granddaughter when he was a child. He has written a scholarly article on Will Crump for the Texas Historical Society, published in the Handbook of Texas Online, and has sold short stories in the past. This is his first novel and the first in the Across the Great Divide series, now an Amazon bestseller.
Michael attended Rice University as an undergraduate, and Portland State University for his graduate degree. He has degrees in computer science, software engineering, and German. In his spare time, Michael loves to go fishing, riding horses, and play with his grandchildren, who are currently all under six years old.
He sees many parallels between the time of the Civil War and our divided nation of today. Sanctuary cities, immigration, arguments around the holiday table, threats of secession - all are nothing new. Sometimes, to understand the present, you have to look at the past- and reach Across the Great Divide.

Table of Contents

Chapter ONE..........................................................................................................10

Chapter TWO..........................................................................................................26

Chapter THREE......................................................................................................32

Chapter FOUR........................................................................................................38

Chapter FIVE.........................................................................................................52

Chapter SIX............................................................................................................58

Chapter SEVEN......................................................................................................74

Chapter EIGHT........................................................................................................86

Chapter NINE.........................................................................................................105

Chapter TEN...........................................................................................................124

Chapter ELEVEN....................................................................................................140

Chapter TWELVE....................................................................................................150

Chapter THIRTEEN.................................................................................................170

Chapter FOURTEEN...............................................................................................188

Chapter FIFTEEN....................................................................................................202

Chapter SIXTEEN....................................................................................................208

Author's Notes..........................................................................................................210