My Name Is Moonjumper

About the Book

John Moonjumper, Moon to his friends, is a Seminole Indian retired from the United States Army and became bored with nothing to do so he joined the Seminole Nation Lighthorsemen, the security branch of the Seminole Nation. Ordinarily, his duties were mediating domestic disputes and arresting drunk and disorderly members of the Nation. When an elderly member of the Nation became involved in a dispute with an oil company, Moon found himself embroiled in murder, a dispute with an F.B.I. agent, a bomb plot, a “cat fight” with his wife as a participant, a drug raid, an actual bombing of his home and several attempts on his life.

About the Author

Arthur Coffey was born near Little Ax in rural Cleveland County Oklahoma. He was educated at Venice High School in Southern California, Seminole State College and East Central State University in Ada Oklahoma. As a young man, he served first in the 40th Division, California National Guard and the United States Air Force. On release from the Air Force he returned to Oklahoma where he met and married a girl from Seminole. They and their children traveled through the Southern and Western states but returned to Seminole for the children’s higher education. Mister Coffey has written magazine articles and man short stories most of which have never been published.