Synopsis
William Garvey Sullivan, a sixteen year old boy in Ireland with a passion for adventure, unexpectedly finds passage to America. He is liked by most everyone he meets, has an exceptional gift for gab, can outwork most anyone, plays a good fiddle, and loves to cook for himself and others. These are the attributes that will eventually carry him across America’s West. He arrives in New York on the eve of the infamous New York Draft Riots After the dust settles, he is befriended by famous pub owner John McSorley. Together they invent the portable kitchen, later called the “chuck wagon. McSorley finances Sully to travel West with the “moving restaurant” to cater to soldiers out west who are being fleeced by Sutlers.. In the process he meets the famous and sees history at places like the OK Corral and in towns like Dodge City and Tombstone Arizona. The story is a big one, as big as the West itself. It cannot be told in one book, Volume One ends as Sully leaves New Mexico and Big Jim Chisum’s ranch and goes on the road to Tombstone, Arizona at the invitation of Wyatt Earp.
