Pre-Release Sales Now Being Taken forSam Hossler's New Book
Frontier Preacher
The Story of John Corbly, 1733 - 1803
History you will not find in history books. In addition to fishing, and in general enjoying the outdoors and all of God's wonderful treasures that it offers, what I love best is to create and bring history to life! Not the sugar-coated version of history that you read about in high school, but actual stories of life and death straight from our American frontier. My area of specialization is 18th century American history and although my books are considered fiction, they are based on actual events. You will soon see that the political world has not really changed much over the last 250 years! We just have added new players wearing the same old masks. Pre-publication orders for Frontier Preacher are now being taken. Click here for details. 
My latest book, Frontier Preacher, is a story of John Corbly (1733-1803) who became a driving force as an evangelist in western Pennsylvania in the early 1700s. Read how the new government ignored this area until a new tax was imposed, a tax on whisky. And this so upset the frontier economy that this tax and surrounding events were later labeled by historians as "The Whisky Rebellion." Last month, folks gathered for the 79th reunion of the John Corbly Descendents Association. It was held this year in the historic Corbly Baptist Church in Gerards Fort near Washington Green, Pennsylvania. Those attending will be exploring the history surrounding this church, the Corbly house and Garads Fort Cemetery as well as seeing many details associated with the massacre area.
Attendees also were able to meet some of the descendants of Corbly's three wives: Abigail, Elizabeth and Nancy, and his 17 children! Yes, things were different in those days!
-Sam Hossler
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sam Hossler has been a freelance writer for over 30 years in that time he has written literally hundreds of magazine articles as well as newspaper columns on the outdoors. He is a member of the Outdoor Writers of America Association and a past president of the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association. In 2005 he had his first book published, The Summer of 1763, and in 2007 his second book, The Great Land Grab, was published.
Hossler has been published in numerous regional and national magazines over the years covering outdoor events and travel. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Natural Sciences, it was a natural progression in his career to write about outdoors he loved.
The areas covered in his novels are familiar territory to him. He has spent countless hours hunting, fishing and hiking these hills, mountains and valleys. His fascination for history and the archaeological dig at Old Hanna's Town in Westmoreland County prompted the research for The Summer of 1763. The Great Land Grab is a natural extension of this first story as it covers the Three Rivers area ten years after the close of the French and Indian War and the attempt of Virginia to claim this territory.
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