The Secret of the Stones by Ernest Dempsey (reading fiction .TXT) 📕

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Author’s Notes

Author’s Notes

With any good piece of fiction I have ever read, there are always notes from the author at the end.  So in keeping with what my favorites have done, I thought I would provide some of the details behind The Secret of the Stones.

Gold really was one of the biggest reasons the United States government wanted to relocate the Native American tribes.  In North Georgia, there have been several documented finds of Indian Gold in different places.  Talks about the Indian Problem began as early as the Jefferson administration and ended with the Trail of Tears moving the last great tribes to the west.  The government never did find the enormous treasures they had hoped for.

The IAA and the Georgia Historical Center are both fictional.  However, at Dalton State College, about an hour north of Atlanta, a new North Georgia Historical Center has been opened and contains a tremendous wealth of history and artifacts.

Chief Vann’s House and the story as relayed in the book are real.  His home is situated in the small town of Chatsworth, GA.  The two-hundred-year-old plantation house is still one of the best preserved historic sites in the United States

Etowah Indian Mounds State Park, Fort Mountain, Track Rock, Red Clay State Park, and Rock Hawk and Rock Eagle are all very real.  The mysteries that these locations present are truly amazing, and I highly suggest visiting them in person. The original location of the Cherokee capital was actually near Cartersville, Georgia.

The riddles and theories concerning the arrival of the first Native American settlers were entirely my concoction.  It was extremely interesting, though, to find so many similarities between the ancient cultures of Egypt and the Native American tribes during my research.  Also, the likeness of the wall at Fort Mountain when compared to the Nile River is quite fascinating, though that monument’s purpose continues to remain a mystery to historians.

One historical note that I did have to alter was the relationship between the Mormon settlers and the Native American migration.  All of the details are true except for one.  The Mormon church was not actually founded for almost another decade after the Trail of Tears.  That fact does not mean that the Mormons could not have helped the tribes later on though.  And their paths certainly crossed many times in the Midwest and beyond.

During the course of the story, the characters find themselves in a church called the Beacon Tabernacle.  This church does exist in the small town of Collegedale, Tennessee.  I changed the name of it to better suit the flow of the story, but all of the details are as close to the truth as I could make them.  The Bible verse that appears in Morse code on the stained-glass windows also exists, but I did take the liberty of changing which verse is displayed.

As to the Golden Chambers themselves, I must admit that they are only a theory of mine.  However, much of the research I have done seems to point toward the number four in conjunction with the existence of a Native treasure. And the more research I do, the more I start to realize that the chambers could be a very real possibility.

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Other Books by Ernest Dempsey

OTHER WORKS BY ERNEST DEMPSEY

THE CLERIC’S VAULT

THE LAST CHAMBER

THE GRECIAN MANIFESTO

THE NORSE DIRECTIVE

GAME OF SHADOWS

THE JERUSALEM CREED

THE SAMURAI CIPHER

THE CAIRO VENDETTA (PREQUEL)

THE ULURU CODE

THE EXCALIBUR KEY

THE DENALI DECEPTION

THE SAHARA LEGACY

THE FOURTH PROPHECY

WHEN SHADOWS CALL (SHADOW CELL THRILLER)

WAR OF THIEVES: AN ADRIANA VILLA THRILLER TRILOGY

Copyright

Copyright © 2012-2018 Ernest Dempsey

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-9887072-0-7

eISBN: 978-0-9887072-1-4

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Disclaimer

This book is a work of fiction, completely derived from the imagination of the author. Characters and events in no way resemble true-life characters. Any similarity is completely coincidental.

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Acknowledgments

Thank you to everyone who has ever supported me and told me to keep writing. My parents, siblings, teachers, and friends, I am grateful to all of you. I’m also thankful for the ones who told me to quit dreaming. Your words have been the fire to push me onward.