Sole Survivor: Short Story Adventures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508892922)

Patrick John (Stanley McShane) Rose was born in 1872 on board his father's ship, the Marguerite, or perhaps in a maternity home in Brooklyn, New York (depending on the story), while his father's ship was discharging cargo from exotic lands. At one point he landed on the streets of San Francisco where he'd heard the streets were paved with gold. During the 30 years he sailed, he participated in the search for pirate treasure and was shanghaied out of San Francisco on a whaler. When Patrick hung up his jib sails forever, the siren call to the rapidly dissipating Wild West beckoned where he searched for gold and later learned to be a cowpoke. But the dust of an Arizona cattle ranch failed to hold this wanderer's interest and he began to procure numerous gold and mining certificates from the Comstock, the Mother Lode of the rapidly exploding mining industry and penny stocks. It was an amazing and exciting time in the early 20th Century. Patrick John Rose survived--the sinking of his ship--the frigid winter of whale hunting in the Bering Sea--the choking Arizona dust and searing sun. Perhaps in the end, it will be you who decides whether or not he survived his greatest adventure--that of Stanley McShane, the author--and his last courageous pursuit!