NOVELS
Coming of age in hostile worlds
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…