Note I am adding alt.books.george-fraser to the newsgroups. They can
use something instead of commercial spam to chew on.
I am also quoting Doug Hoff's post in its entirety.
In article <jpOdnTFF0-zOXfTfRVn-2Q@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Doug Hoff <douglasx.hoff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>So, here I sit, with a brand new copy (courtesy of amazon.com.uk - no
>exchange rate is too bad when in need of a Flashy fix) of 'Flashman on
the
>March.' Whilst reflecting on the fact that the book probably wont be
>available in American bookstores. for some time, it occurred to me. What
>would an American 'Flashman' be up to? In other words, an American
>poltroon, born May 5, 1822 who travels in the Yankee, rather than in the
>Victorian British, milieu? [and I also wonder if this has been done on
SHWI
>before?]
>
>Off the top of my head, looking for minimal overlap with 'OTL' Flashy:
>
>Mexican War - to California with Fremont, then to the D.F. with Scott
>
>San Francisco during California Gold Rush
>
>Filibustering in Nicaragua with Walker
>
>San Fran during the Vigilance Committee
>
>Opening Japan with Matt Perry
>
>captured on board the 'Black Warrior' in Havanna Harbor.
>
>Along for the broadsword fun with Brown in Bleeding Kansas
>
>Trapped in Charleston Harbor with the Union garrison
>
>Scrambling for his life in Union blue after First Manassas
>
>[insert random ACW adventures]
>
>shanghaied to the Mexican border with Sheridan
>
>running guns to the Second Cuban insurrection
>
>[misc adventures in the S-A War]
>
>Takers? And does anyone know a Gringo analogue to 'Tom Brown's School
Days'
>that a Flashy character could be lifted from?
There is a Flashman analog in the works of Raymond Saunders (Fenwick
Travers
and the Panama Canal, etc.) As the titles indicate, Travers begins his
adventures about the time Harry is fini****ng up his. I read a couple
of the Saunder's books and while they are not up to GMF's standards
(but few are) they are OK. Readers of soc.history.what-if would probably
like the Phillipine adventure, Fenwick Travers and the Forbidden
Kingdom, the best because of its detailed account of a truely bizarre
military trial.
Others in the thread mentioned further adventures for Huck Finn and
Tom Sawyer. I think you would want a minor character at the center.
perhaps one of the boy's conned by Tom Sawyer who began as he would
continue and who is bamboolzed throughout his life.
As to scene's of action, besides the ones mentioned there are other
filbustering expeditions which were even more disastrous than
William Walker's. Of course, you can get American's almost at every
scene of Flashman's adventures, certainly the African slave trade,
First Sikh War, and Taiping Rebellion. After all, there were historical
American figures there.
You might be better with a naval or at least ocean going protagonist.
A *Flashman and the Barbary Pirates perhaps (granted, a little early).
A merchant marine setting might be even better. See Fred T. Ward
or the sharp tongued Yankee skipper Byron encounter in Turkish waters.
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