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Title: Dobyns Chronicles

Author: Shirley McLain

Narrator: Clay Lomakayu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-15

Publisher: Shirley's Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Dobyns Chronicles is a captivating celebration of the life of Charlie Dobyns. His life began in Northeast Texas, near Bonham, on the Red River. His Cherokee mother and cowboy father strove to survive on their river valley ranch. Tragedy ended this way of life for Charlie in 1888. Follow him through Chickasaw Territory and on to McAlester in Eastern Oklahoma.

This is a story of a changing way of life and adaptations made to survive. Charlie's strong passion for life and dignity equipped him for survival as he raised his siblings with likeability and dignity. It's a story of loss, misfortune, hard times, and heartbreak but also love, determination, kindness, joy, and spirituality.

Follow Charlie's life through the adventures that shaped the man he became, and the lives of his family, for generations.

Members Reviews:

`You just have to take a deep seat and hang on for the ride.'

California-born Oklahoma author Shirley McLain is a retired RN, enjoying her retirement in Sapulpa, Oklahoma writing poetry and novels. She has seen much, not only in her travels but in her survey of the human heart as a nurse, and she comes to this historical fiction novel DOBYNS CHRONICLES with a sound sense of appreciation of the terrain of Texas and Oklahoma, the durability of the pioneer men and women about whom she writes, and a special appreciation for Native American history.

McLain writes with such keen sense of reality that the figures in her book jump off the page and stay in our minds as the many aspects of the chronicled life spill out. Despite the fact that the author spends time at the inception of the book declaring that this book is fiction, we can't help but believe that Charlie Dobyns was a real figure. The narrator gives us that impression and it is a fine way to relate history, whether lived or invented from the myriad tales that surround Texas and Oklahoma of the 19th and 20th centuries. Charlie Dobbins was a `half-breed' - the son of a Cherokee mother and Texas cowboy. The early days in the Red River valley ranch were harsh and Charlie's fond memories were brought to a tragic close in 1888. From that year on we accompany Charlie through Chickasaw lands into McAlester, Oklahoma. Charlie suffers the slings and arrows of exposure to Yellow Fever, tax sale, hard times, heartbreak, tragedies, yet through it all he demonstrates love, kindness, joy, and a strong spiritual connection that brings him to the role of grandfather to a family hose actions become indelible in our memories. And so whether fact or fiction we know Charlie Dobbins through Shirley McLain's gift for writing from birth to death, and as a touching eulogy, McLain offers `I am proud to be part of this family. Charley left us a legacy of love for family and for the land. In the sixties, the old house burned down but was rebuilt by his grandson, Charles Blevins, who continues to live on the old home place. Kettle Creek has been such a special part of many people's lives. As long as one of us remains on the mountain, then Charley will always be around.'

This kind of Americana, too infrequently captured in novels, is fine medicine for the times in which we live. History and an appreciation of roots soothe many of the scars time leaves. Grady Harp, July 14

Dobyns Chronicles, A Family History

Dobyns Chronicles is the story of young Charley Dobyns coming of age in the Texas and Oklahoma Territories. The time period is 1880-1950.