That Philadelphia Girl

About the Book

Wyoming territory in 1860 was a place with a rough edge. Rawlins was in it’s youth as a town and the Union Pacific railroad had just come through. Into this exciting place, Bill Cameron arrived as a cowboy ready to start his own spread in the rich grasslands. That Philadelphia Girl is a vivid chronicle of Bill Cameron’s story. He couldn’t count on the weather or the law, and in a world of colorful characters and outrageous deeds, comes the Philadelphia girl, Bonnie Ashworth. She changes everything.

About the Author

Ed Carlson’s fascination with western lore began over seventy years ago when he was in the fourth grade in northeastern South Dakota and began reading the novels of Zane Grey. Born and raised on a farm near Columbia, South Dakota, he gained some experience with horses, cattle, and all the work associated with that world. After three years in U.S. Navy during World War II, he moved to Utah and graduated from Utah State University in Logan. Throughout his lifetime as a metalurgical engineer, he has taken every opportunity to roam the west, fishing in Utah, hunting antelope n Wyoming, and prowling the remote ghost towns of Arizona. Besides studying the history of the west, he has assembled one of the few complete collections of Zane Grey novels, and he has the old Kohler power plant that Grey used to electrify his cabin in Payson, Arizona. Ed Carlson lives in Phoenix where he does laser torch sculpture, writes, and restores vintage cars.