Download or read book Building a Nation After the Smoke Cleared Away written by S. E. Masters and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Edward Masters (1890-1958) lived his early years on several homesteads in the area south of Brush, CO and northeast of Deer Trail, CO. Cowhand, auto mechanic, roughneck, welder. This memoir, written the last six months before he died, recounts his childhood on the high plains of eastern Colorado.