tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67336352356294228932024-03-13T07:07:20.869-07:00The Journal of Frank Rudd Bybee (1897 - 1900).This blog describes the kidnapping (or being shanghaied) of then 16 year old Frank Rudd Bybee, who was forced into being a sailor, until freedom was granted off Cape Town, South Africa.
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Either Google (or I) have yet to allow for manipulation of pages. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721802959066405793noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733635235629422893.post-79102741477382175742014-05-24T20:36:00.000-07:002014-05-25T19:32:50.653-07:00May, 2014<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Journal of Frank Rudd Bybee
(1897 - 1900)</i></b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandson <b>Jack Bybee</b> (2012) - <br />
Author: <b><i>The Journal of Frank Rudd Bybee 1897 - 1900</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">In
1897, Frank Rudd Bybee ran away from a farm in Paradise, Iowa and an
abusive, alcoholic, ironmonger father. At age 16, while exploring San
Francisco in search of his brother, Charlie-Elmer, Frank wass shanghaied on the Barbary
Coast of California. He awoke in the brig of a brigantine bound for Cape
Horn and London.<br />After encountering a 'rogue wave' off the
Argentine coast, during which Frank saved the life of the First Mate, a
mutiny ensues and the captain is 'persuaded' to head for the nearest
land.<br /><br />'Nearest land' is Cape Town, South Africa where Frank is
granted his Freedom. In short order, he meets Miss Mini (this writer's
grandmother) Rudyard Kipling, (then resident near the University of Cape
Town) Cape Colony Premier, Cecil-John Rhodes, and Col. Baden-Powell,
founder of the Boy Scout movement.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Frank
befriends Baden-Powell, while helping to relieve the siege of Mafeking,
during the Second Boer War, in the process, he contributes to the
foundations of the Scouting movement.<br /><br />In 1953, Frank Rudd Bybee,
died near Worcester, Cape, South Africa. He died a sad, lonely and
confused man, still suffering, I believe, from PTSD, caused by the rogue
wave encountered in the South Atlantic. <br />While <i>The Journal...</i> is mainly fiction, it is heavily based on factual events, relative the life of Frank Rudd Bybee, as this writer has researched.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://journaloffrb.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=a65FFkYBAAA.2oagAljSfnkNWigWMEJn3A.igkF5jBASraReKsAjXqHZQ&postId=5249610977602607650&type=POST" target="_blank">Agent / Publisher Info</a> </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721802959066405793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733635235629422893.post-32769737028807779782014-05-19T06:06:00.000-07:002014-05-20T20:50:11.979-07:00Further Writing (Most rights available)<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Articles on Death or the NDE (Near-Death Experience)</b></u></span>:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Morgue (Word Count: 1403)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Steve Job's Last Words (Word Count: 586)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Death, Preparing for it </span><span style="font-size: large;">(Word Count: 960)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Three Most Important Questions </span><span style="font-size: large;">(Word Count: 887)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Short stories based in Africa</b></u>: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Kimdog's Tale (er... Tail) (Word Count: 15,078) <br /> Tales of A Border Collie in South Africa.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Along a Dusty African Road </span><span style="font-size: large;">(Word Count: 892) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721802959066405793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733635235629422893.post-52496109776026076502014-05-19T06:02:00.005-07:002014-05-19T06:02:52.117-07:00Agent / Publisher Info<span style="font-size: large;">As the author of <i><b>The Journal of Frank Rudd Bybee, 1897 - 1900</b></i>, and as Frank's grandson, I am more than proud of this accomplishment. While a professional technical writer and editor, this is my breakout novel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is what I seek with a (traditional) publisher or responsive agent versed in electronic, movie and international rights, while still being willing to, ever so gently, where needed, guide my progress:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">As agent </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">in historical fiction</span>, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">have</span> you sold, this passed year (2013-14) more than six titles? If so, to which publishers?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Do you charge fees of any sort?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Do you have affiliated agents who handle foreign rights, for you? TV and movie rights? How about electronic and e-book rights?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">What is your commission on domestic sales? On foreign sales? On sales where sub-agents are involved?<br /><br />You were able to answer yes to a majority of the above? Wonderful ! Why not e-mail me?: '<a href="mailto:journalofrudd@gmail.com">journalofrudd at sign gmail dot com'.</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b><span style="font-size: large;">SYNOPSIS of</span></b></u><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">: </span>Journal of Frank Rudd Bybee, 1897 - 1900</b></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The voice of this novel is that of Frank Rudd Bybee, as
written in his Journal, which he kept for years, from the plains of Paradise, Iowa to the Hex River Valley, near Worcester,
South Africa.</span> <i><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Journal of Frank Rudd Bybee, 1897 - 1900, </span></b></i><span style="font-size: large;">is complete</span> <span style="font-size: large;">in its creation. Still needed are sketches, a cover, a comprehensive copy-edit, and e-book style formatting.</span> <span style="font-size: large;">This writer seeks an agent versed in traditional publishing, including movie, electronic and international rights for this title.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1897, responding to an urgent note from his brother,
Charlie-Elmer, Frank Rudd Bybee (hereafter FRB), runs away from the homestead
in Crawford County, Iowa. He runs away from a violently abusive
and alcoholic ironmonger of a father, who supports his habit by earning an ironmonger’s wage. Well,
an iron-monger when he is sober.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">FRB will help Charley-Elmer in San Francisco, even if it means leaving his beloved farm, and
his goals of one day farming produce to Dennison,
Iowa. His big fear is leaving Ma,
to the vilification of Pa.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before leaving Arion Depot, Frank and Clarissa find each
other in their first romantic encounter. Promising to return to Clarissa’s arms
and a family on the farm to be created, FRB ventures forth. At the last minute,
Hunter bounds up, to join Frank as the train is pulling out. He certainly needs
a dog along for the ride. The train journey, via Red Cloud, Nebraska and the
Upper Platte river has it’s excitement of ‘injun action’, in which FRB proves
his mettle as a sharpshooter, as he demonstrates to Malcolm, the train’s
flagman: <br />
“<i>Here, Malcolm, see that pigeon circling
the elm down there…</i>?<i>” as the box car
sways this way and that, I snap the Winchester to my shoulder, the way Oliver
always teach me, ‘fast, hard, sight, aim, pull’. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“…now, you don’t.” And
the feathers came, drifting, drifting</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the Donner Pass, and across the Great Basin to Sacramento, California, where Clarissa and Aunt Bea catch up with FRB, playing the part of the mythical Threshold
Gaurdians, noting that the Barbary Coast of San Francisco, is a hive of criminal
activity and kidnapping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Journey South</span></u></b>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">FRB, through circumstances, attends a <i>psuedo</i> birthday party on board a ship, only to be shanghaied by
being drugged. Waking up in the brig, he is told that the Hornet_II is bound
for London, via Valpairiso,
Chile, and Cape
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scores are leveled slightly when Bunko Kelly, FRB’s crimp,
appears in a clipper off the starboard bow, racing for Valparaiso. Kelly is, in turn, kidnapped, and
FRB is made one of the crew, as they prepare for the harshness of the Straights
of Magellan and Cape Horn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rescued from drifting onto the rocks by a pod of wales off
Punta Concepcion, off the entrance to the Straights of Magellan, this horrifying
event merely intensifies FRB’s desire to return to Iowa and start the farm (and
a family) as soon as possible. However…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shortly after breaking out the rum, as dictated by nautical
custom, when entering a new ocean, the South Atlantic, off the coast of Argentina, the
vessel is hit by a ‘rogue wave’, “…it was a giant swell”. In the process, FRB,
while battling Kelly, saves the life of Bart, the Hornet_II’s First Mate. After
calm returns, not only is Rippens, the ship’s cat, and FRB’s only on-board
friend, rescued from clinging to the stern sheets, but mutiny follows in which
the Captain is ‘persuaded’ to head for the nearest shore. Catching the
South-East trade winds off the island
of Tristan da Cunha, the nearest shore
is soon realized as Cape Town,
South Africa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Landing in Cape Town, FRB wastes
no time when he meets Mini-Clara Harriman, who, in turn, has recently arrived
from Somerset, Kent, in pursuit of her literary
hero, Rudyard Kipling. Kipling, friends with Cape Colony
premier Cecil-John Rhodes, convinces FRB to help Colonel Baden-Powell relieve
the Siege of Mafeking, a garrison town in the North-West of South Africa. In
the process, the ideas and foundation of the Boy’s Scout movement are
formulated by Baden-Powell and FRB.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Baden-Powell, the young Winston Churchill, Boer kommandos, Harriboi,
the ancient Khoi-khoi aborigine, Lady Sarah Wilson, aunt to Churchill, are all
involved to some degree or another, in the relief (or otherwise) of Mafeking.
While the Boer War was often portrayed lopsidedly, the atrocities FRB
experiences, including the death, in his arms, of Harriboi, after being whipped
horrendously by the Boers, leaves this young Iowa farm-boy totally shaken and
disillusioned. After helping relieve the Siege, FRB is only to pleased to return
to the waiting, open and most receptive arms of 'Miss Mini'. They establish a
small farm in the idyllic Hex
River Valley,
where grape and fruit production is the major industry. FRB works for the Cape
Orchard Company, a subsidiary of Cecil Rhodes’ Rhodes Fruit Farms. FRB’s
‘vision in the woods’ has now been fullfilled as the mountain on a cloud, and
the farms with grapes, have been realized, and the mythical Hero, has not quite
completed the Journey, he still needs the accolades of returning to his
Community. This does not happen for FRB.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frank Rudd Bybee, dies in Worcester, in 1953. His Journal, unknown
until his death, is discovered by John Bybee, his grandson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">FRB died a sad, lonely, confused man. His last words being:
“… I am walking back… I must find Ma, Hunter, and Clari… walking back to the
farm in Iow….”</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Journal of Frank Rudd Bybee
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandson <b>Jack Bybee</b> (2012) - <br />
Author: <b><i>The Journal of Frank Rudd Bybee 1897 - 1900</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1897, Frank Rudd Bybee ran away from a farm in Paradise, Iowa and an abusive, alcoholic, ironmonger father. At age 16, while exploring San Francisco in search of his brother, Frank was shanghaied on the Barbary Coast of California. He awoke in the brig of a brigantine bound for Cape Horn and London.<br />After encountering a 'rogue wave' off the Argentine coast, during which Frank saved the life of the First Mate, a mutiny ensues and the captain is 'persuaded' to head for the nearest land.<br /><br />'Nearest land' is Cape Town, South Africa where Frank is granted his Freedom. In short order, he meets Miss Mini (this writer's grandmother) Rudyard Kipling, (then resident near the University of Cape Town) Cape Colony Premier, Cecil-John Rhodes, and Col. Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Frank befriends Baden-Powell, while helping to relieve the siege of Mafeking, during the Second Boer War, in the process, he contributes to the foundations of the Scouting movement.<br /><br />In 1953, Frank Rudd Bybee, died near Worcester, Cape, South Africa. He died a sad, lonely and confused man, still suffering, I believe, from PTSD, caused by the rogue wave encountered in the South Atlantic. <br />While <i>The Journal...</i> is mainly fiction, it is heavily based on factual events, relative the life of Frank Rudd Bybee, as this writer has researched.</span></span><br />
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