A Western Story

About the Book

It is mid-winter and once he has found his way to the cabin and settled in, the storms come. He can see the ice spreading on the lake. He can see the snow piling up. He can feel the wind and taste the cold. He has not come to this cabin for a vacation. He has come to fight a battle with himself, just as crazy as any Custer; he has come to discover and claim his West, just as desperate as any Lewis or Clark. A Western Story is the frenzied chronicle of these battles and these discoveries.

About the Author

Gerald B. Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington. He graduated from Lewis and Clark High School. He has worked in a lumber mill and in lumberyards, as a Pinkerton guard and in a gas station. He has taught American Studies in colleges and universities. He is the author of Changes of Heart, Ten Versions of America, Seattle: The Life and Times of an American City, and, as Ned Cort, of Alpine Gambit and Target Norway. Robin Lindley illustrated A Western Story. He was born in Spokane, Washington. His drawings and poems have appeared in numerous publications. He has undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has worked as a railroad laborer, library assistant, law teacher, public health analyst, government attorney, and attorney-investigator for the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations. He is now a visual artist and writer living in Seattle with his wife Betsy.