Incident at Deer Lodge

About the Book

With the longest story, “Incident at Deer Lodge” as the centerpiece, a tale about an alleged escape from Montana State Prison, this is a collection of stories, story-sketches and memoirs that explore a variety of relationships, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, because there is never an answer for each and every question. Situations range from the banal to the bizarre, from the weirdly cute to the most subtle, and from the exquisitely tender to the most violent. Someone said many of the stories seem like synopses of whole books, at once both spare and panoramic. Yet each peculiar character follows a dramatic and fateful path. There are 35 writings, taking place from Alaska to Hawaii, and Upstate New York to Egypt.

About the Author

Gordon H. Hills was born, and raised in Central New York. He received a degree in Agriculture from Cornell University, but did not pursue this as a career. He served in the peacetime army, then went to Europe for almost three years on the GI Bill. For many years he held a variety of jobs before receiving a librarian’s degree. Then he worked in many types of libraries, becoming a specialist in Indian/Native library development, publishing a book on the subject. He and his wife moved to Hawaii in 1998, and there he continued enjoying favorite pastimes of his such as playing the cello, painting in oils, and working on his writing. He died of cancer in August, 2002. Cover photo: © 2002 Paul McCormick