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 over the course of the first two books, Bailey interacts with many of the key historic figures of the time 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 what has become a trilogy, King Cotton III - Jack & the Ripper, was released in the Spring of 2025. This entry brings to life even more of the Wild West, and it ends with Bailey patrolling the squalid streets of Whitechapel in 1888, hot on the trail of Jack the Ripper.