Thanks for stopping in.  Firelight Books is a Cherokee family owned & operated business.  We have a physical store in Northwest Georgia.  We love Ebay because it's so much fun and we've met a lot of nice folks here.
 
It's so much fun to get phone calls and emails for Lucy Walker.  Actually, Lucy Walker is a cat -- the finest cat I've ever known, and she's the boss around here.  If you have time for one of my short stories (people who know me will tell you that I don't know what a short story is), I'll tell you the Lucy Walker Story.
  
Thanks for stopping in.  Firelight Books is a Cherokee family owned & operated business.  We have a physical store in Northwest Georgia and a website at www.fyrelight.com.  We love Ebay because it's so much fun and we've met a lot of nice folks here.  I have lots of other Cherokee items on my web page. 

It's so much fun to get phone calls and emails for Lucy Walker.  Actually, Lucy Walker is a cat -- the finest cat I've ever known, and she's the boss around here.  If you have time for one of my short stories (people who know me will tell you that I don't know what a short story is), I'll tell you the Lucy Walker Story.
  
A long time ago, before the Indian Removal came to the Cherokee Nation, a young Cherokee man named Joe Vann (aka Rich Joe Vann) lived in a place called Springplace, Georgia.  Joe, the son of James Vann, owned a prize race horse named Lucy Walker.  Lucy won many races for Joe, who was a bit of a gambler and like his father, loved a good challenge,  No one is quite clear on why Joe picked the name Lucy Walker -- perhaps he knew a girl by that name or maybe she was his sweetheart.  No one seems to know what ever became of Lucy Walker, but her colts sold for a handsome sum of money.

Many years later, the Indian Removal had taken young Joe to a place called Webber Falls, Oklahoma, where he settled into his new life, and went about recreating his fortune.  Here he owned a fine steam boat named -- Lucy Walker. 

Joe prepared for taking his and Lewis Ross' crops to market on the Lucy Walker.  The trip there went as planned, however, after they'd arrived and the goods were sold, the captain of the Lucy Walker resigned leaving Joe no choice but to fend without him.  Joe and his servants set The Lucy Walker asail for home.

Not long into the trip, another boat pulled alongside The Lucy Walker and shouted to Joe, who was standing on the deck smoking a cigar.  The captain was challenging Joe to a race -- and being the gambler he was and with his personal seriousness about challenges  -- well, the race was on.

After a while, The Lucy Walker began to slow.  Joe ordered the hands to quickly throw whatever they could grab into the fire to create more steam.  Frantically they worked at feeding the fire -- then they ran out of things to throw in.  Joe quickly ordered them to throw in the salt pork.  One of the hands argued that it might be dangerous to throw fat into the fire, but Joe strongly insisted (by holding the man at pistol-point) to proceed as instructed.

Shortly The Lucy Walker caught fire and exploded.  The only survivor was the hand who had argued with Joe that it might be dangerous to throw salt pork into the fire.  None of the bodies were identified and only remnants were returned home for burial.

That's the story of Joe Vann's Lucy Walkers.  Our Lucy Walker came to us on Christmas Eve of 1999.  She just happened up on to the back porch and wanted in.  She seemed so cold, hungry, and all alone, but we figured a kitten as fine as she must belong to some one.  Still she came in for the night.  Not knowing her real name, we just started calling her Lucy Walker, and she responded to it.

She quickly began taking over - not just our home, but also our store.  Every thing became Lucy Walker's.  She had stolen our hearts.  Our worst fear was that some one might come along and claim her. 

By spring, no one had claimed her and it was obvious she had adopted us.  So we took her to the vet for all the necessary things they do, we bought her a collar with her new name on it -- since she had also taken over all the computers, we just made our email address lucywalker99@aol.com.

So now you know The Lucy Walker story -- and also that I really and truly cannot tell a short story.

At Firelight, our goal is to advocate & promote Native American history, culture & tradition.  We are a Cherokee owned & operated business.  We believe in the old-fashioned way of doing business.  We live in a small town where the store keepers usually call people by their names and make small talk.  We'd like to maintain that environment within our e-commerce business. 

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