FIRST TERRITORY: Editorial comments, opening excerpt
Sunstone Press 2013
The Indian who claimed to own the Umatilla ferry was nowhere along the bank, and I wondered out loud if the governor was the kind to bristle at a delay, but Dominique merely nodded at two canoes poking from beneath willows.
Reviews of First Territory
In Whispering Wind Magazine and Old West Book Reviews
In 1855, 16-year-old Andrew Eaton agrees to the Washington territorial governor’s offer of five dollars of gold per day to act as interpreter at a mandated Walla Walla treaty council…
SPIRIT MOON: SNEAK PEAK OF THE MISSISSIPPI BEHIND US
From Richies river novel
The morning we’d found Heron Quill sweating and shivering in her bark house, I showed Spirit Moon a jar of quinine, the fever treatment all fur traders used in 1820. But she stared at my cedar stethoscope instead, as if it held some sacred power like the medicine stone…
THE MISSISSIPPI BEHIND US: EXCERPT FROM A NEW NOVEL
The Mississippi Behind Us depicts a white fur trader and his Dakota wife on the upper Mississippi circa 1819-1828, while Indians hotly contest the new nation’s claim to the river’s wilderness. Read an excerpt!
THE TROUBLE WITH BECOMING AN AUNT: INERTIAL GUIDANCE, AN EXCERPT
Excerpt from the Year 2000 Peace Writing Award
I did not understand until my late twenties that my father had created geometric equations that had been translated onto super-light cards that had raced through a miniature computer in the nose cone of an atomic missile…
THE TROUBLE WITH BECOMING AN AUNT: THE SIN OF SAYING NO, AN EXCERPT
Excerpt from the Year 2000 Peace Writing Award
The girl smiled a weak smile at Pepe, and I knew my brother, he would not see any sickness in that moony look he got. He saw the shine in the girl’s eyes and believed it was a twinkling for him.
2000 PEACE WRITING AWARD: NEWS ARTICLES
Newspaper articles about The Trouble with Becoming an Aunt, the Year 2000 National Peace Writing Award for an unpublished novel.
