Forging Valor: George Washington — Signed Copy

Before he was a general. Before he was a president. He was a boy who learned to choose the hard right over the easy wrong. If you've followed KC Cattle Company for any length of time, you know our founder Pat Montgomery doesn't do watered-down versions of anything — not food, and not history. Forging Valor: George Washington — Before He Crossed the Delaware is the book he wrote for his own four kids: a historically grounded picture book about how an imperfect, hot-tempered, unremarkable boy was forged into the man who refused a crown. Across thirteen illustrated chapters, each closing on a single forged virtue, children meet the real Washington — the eleven-year-old who lost his father and got to work, the young officer whose mistakes cost lives and who carried those names the rest of his life, the general who froze alongside his men at Valley Forge, and the leader who did the hardest thing of all: gave the power back. This isn't a hero myth. It covers his failures, his temper, and the contradiction of slavery honestly and at a level children ages 6–10 can absorb — because Pat believes the question every parent has to answer is this: do we want to raise good children, or do we want to raise resilient and capable adults? What you're getting Hand-signed by the author — Pat Montgomery, former U.S. Army Ranger and founder of KC Cattle Company Thirteen illustrated chapters, each anchored to a virtue: courage, responsibility, determination, bravery, audacity, selflessness, duty, growth, faith, and more Written for ages 6–10 to read together — and honest enough that parents get something out of it too Dedicated to six fallen soldiers, including SSG Jeremy A. Katzenberger, Pat's closest friend and Ranger brother Book One in the Forging Valor series "You have two choices in this world. The hard right, or the easy wrong." — the words a Special Forces veteran gave Pat as a young man, and the thesis of every page in this book.