The Ancient Canine

About the Book

And old Scottie dog befriends a poor school teacher on the Navajo Reservation. He leads him deep into the desert and directs him to a cache of 16th Century gold doubloons. The old dog expires and is buried by the teacher. In Phoenix, the teacher is shown by a coin shop owner and old log book with lithographic drawings. One is of Coronado sitting astride his horse with his padre standing in front. The date is 1540. And to the teacher’s astonishment, peering out from behind the padre’s frock is the old Scottie dog.

Episode 2: A Hopi child is saved from the bite of a rattlesnake during a ceremonial dance.

Episode 3: A murderer is distracted from killing his prey at the rim of the Grand Canyon.

Episode 4: Deep in the Mojave Desert, a family is rescued from carjackers.

Episode 5: A ghetto child is saved when the gang he is about to join is gunned down in a drive-by shooting.

Episode 6: A Mexican farmworker avoids certain death as the ancient canine shows him safe passage to the promised land.

Episode 7: A man, his wife, dog, cat and a stray doe are rescued from a raging forest fire.

Episode 8-9: A man seeks to save his son from terrorist kidnappers high in the California Sierras.

Episode 10: A deadly earthquake in San Francisco traps the ancient canine and an elderly woman under tons of rubble.

Episode 11: A young woman is abducted by a crazed rapist.

Episode 12: A volcano erupts in Washington State. An old codger is buried in the subsequent avalanche.

Episode 13: A grizzly bear and a battle-scarred bull elk face off in front of a hunter trapped knee-deep in a mountain stream.

Episode 14: A Ph.D. candidate in Montana learns how the ancient muskox survived the great Pleistocene Extinction, when he, the ancient canine, and the last surviving herd are confronted by a pack of ravenous wolves.

Episode 15: A baby, abandoned in the snow by drug addicts, survives because of the warmth of the ancient canine.

Episode 16: A pitbull attacks children in an elementary school yard.

Episode 17: A family in Illinois is given a lesson in love at Xmas, and an unscrupulous corporation lawyer learns the pain of poetic justice.

Episode 18: A young man risks his life to save a child, and wins the love of his life during a raging Mississippi River flood.

Episode 19: Problems plague a voodoo shyster in the Louisiana swamps, as the body of an old dog found floating among the flotsam mysteriously comes back to life in front of his eyes.

Episode 20: Klan members experience retribution in an ill-planned raid against an Indian Reservation in Mississippi.

Episode 21: The Ancient Canine is called by mysterious voices to protect the remains of an ancient, long-dead, master, from marauding archeologists.

Episode 22: Two young college students are lost in a limestone cave in Georgia. A dog-like apparition leads them to safety.

Episode 23-24: Elderly people in a Florida retirement community are saved from the unscrupulous activities of a car dealership.

Episode 25: A young man, his dog and landlady are aided by the ancient canine in their desperate attempt to save a manatee cow and her calf from motorlaunch traffic and two marauding Dobermans.

Episode 26: A young man and the old dog he has rescued from drowning are kept marooned in a mangrove swamp by a persistent blue shark.

Episode 27: The ancient canine mysteriously suffers panic each time the fishing boat passes a particular place off the Florida Coast.

Episode 28-29: Descendants of African slaves living in poverty on Florida’s east coast experience a destructive, hurricane-caused storm surge.

Episode 30: A man is rescued from a Carolina chain gang by the ancient canine and a fluke of nature.

About the Author

R.J. Cantwell, PhD. Retired adjunct professor of Geology, Biology, Geography, and Anthropology, resides in Dunlap, California.