Twisted Trail

About the Book

He was a half-breed, one-of-a-kind, Texas Ranger, but he didn’t know it. Suffering from a head wound he had lost all memory of who or what he was. Found bleeding and half dead by hands from the Box Bar B, they had taken him to the ranch and in time his body healed, but not his mind. Searching for his identity, he followed clues that lead him up into the Northwest Territories, home of the Arapaho and Sioux Nations, where tensions were high. The Nations were gearing up to defend their homes and their way of life. Ex-soldiers, refugees from the Civil War, having their lives torn apart with nothing left, were migrating west looking for opportunities. One opportunity took the form of attempting to seize a ranch that lay within the Nations hunting ground, unawares of old standing treaties. Bank robbers out of Texas and on the run, were having serious moral conflicts and had chosen sides. This volatile mix of conflicting emotions, fear, greed, and opposing forces was what this young man, who didn’t even know his own name, but remembered the name of his horse Jinx, was

About the Author

I was born in 1941 in what was then a rural suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Graduating from high school in 1959, by the skin of my teeth, and in 1960, enlisted in the United States Army, honorably discharged in 1963. Using the G.I. Bill, I earned my bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University. In 1995, I found, a little bit late in life, my true love and best friend. There have been so many different jobs that I’ve worked at that I can barely remember them all. Didn't matter to me much what the job was. I did it with a will and felt lucky to have it. I don't remember every job, but I do remember every dog that I was lucky enough to have come into my life. Currently I live in a rural community on about a dozen acres. Keeps me busy taking care of the place and cleaning up after what was a trash-littered eyesore. It is now a healthy, growing, and productive habitat, and I'm not done yet. Life is such a joy and there’s so much beauty in it all. I'm going to try to live to be at least 120 years old or die trying. It's all there to love and enjoy. I'm not much of a churchgoer as my church is around me 24/7. We're all part of all of it—live it and love it, it’s all good.