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The image above represents the 31 year old Sunny Kathleen when she arrives in the Philippines in 1907 and captivates Captain George Allison, United States Army. The women in her family observe healthy habits and age well. In the early days of World War II, in her sixties, Kathleen causes Navy Lt. Commander Buck Shaw to gasp at her beauty.
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KATHLEEN is the first "Jaguarundi Book" and the connection novel to the trilogy "Magandang Pilipinas" (Beautiful Philippines), and it includes (as do some other volumes in the Philippines set series) characters from "Sunny of the Old Southwest" besides Sunny Kathleen herself.* The two intertwined series are like life and lives . . intertwined.
*Stories of Kathleen's parents
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The Jaguarundi's jaguarundi was given to her by the Brazilian sea captain who gave her the nickname as well because, like the little Central American wildcat, she is small, brown, and dangerous. The wildcat, from a species found from the Southern States of Sunny's homeland to deep into South America, was her constant companion. The tale of how she earned the name begins the second "Jaguarundi" book.
Sunny's accomplished parents had helped tame the frontier . . but not as Indian fighters for obvious reasons: her mother being full blooded Navajo and a refugee from the infamous "Long Walk of the Navajo People" and her mother's two close female cousins (her 'sisters') victims of that ordeal and 4 years of imprisonment by order of the U.S. Government under Western Army forces at Bosque Redondo on the Pecos River. They had, of necessity, fought a little against the Comanche in the Red River War.
With Capt. George Allison before
the Cagayan Valley Expedition |
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