Richard Allan “Rick” Noble started his career in publishing at Canada’s National Newspaper, The Globe and Mail. He moved to the U.S. in 1990 and continued to work as an executive in digital publishing in the newspaper, periodical, medical, aviation, and K-12 industries, before retiring in 2022. Always a history buff, Rick became interested in the Civil War during a brief period when he lived in Kentucky. His oldest daughter was born in Louisville, and some of her first restaurant meals in life were at The Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky. That tavern and Bardstown both play important roles in King Cotton II - Kentucky Gold. Rick holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto, and currently resides in Colorado. King Cottonwas his first novel and its sequel, King Cotton II - Kentucky Gold, was his second.
Richard Allan “Rick” Noble started his career in publishing at Canada’s National Newspaper, The Globe and Mail. He moved to the U.S. in 1990 and continued to work as an executive in digital publishing in the newspaper, periodical, medical, aviation, and K-12 industries, before retiring in 2022. Always a history buff, Rick became interested in the Civil War during a brief period when he lived in Kentucky. His oldest daughter was born in...
In in the spring of 2023, a Kentucky farmer was plowing his fields when he noticed the earth behind him begin to sparkle in the sun. He jumped off his tractor and discovered that he had just unearthed hundreds of beautiful gold coins. Confederate gold coins, as it happened, the newest of which were dated 1863. And no one knows how or why they...
King Cotton is a historical fiction novel that covers all four years the U.S. Civil War. The main character, Jack Bailey, is a 24-year-old cotton exporter working out of Charleston, South Carolina, for his father’s business in Liverpool. During that period of history, cotton was the oil of the day, accounting for 60 percent of total U.S....
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Thank you for your interest in King Cotton. This saga revolves around a fictional character, Jack Bailey, who finds himself in the middle of scores of important events during the history-rich period of the late 1800's. Gettysburg, Lincoln's assassination, the first gunfights and train robberies of the Old West, the opening of the Old Chisolm Trail, and the surrender of Jefferson Davis, to name just a few. During his adventures, Bailey interacts with many of the key historic figures of the times including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, John Wilkes Booth, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Mary Surratt, Allan Pinkerton, famed photographer Mathew Brady, Pauline Cushman, and more. Almost all of the events and characters in these books are real, but they have been woven together in what I hope makes it a fun and entertaining journey, just waiting to be witnessed by you through the eyes of a selfish rake. The third book in the trilogy, King Cotton III - Jack & the Ripper, is in the works.
