The Dream Hunters Epoch

About the Book

THE PALEO INDIAN SERIES: CLOVIS THE DREAM HUNTERS EPOCH A frightened abandoned child struggles to survive the terrifying perils of the Pleistocene Llano Estacado to become a powerful woman, protected by Spirit Mammoth Mother; her only friend a huge Dire Wolf. Set against the panoramic backdrop of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains and Llano Estacado of Wyoming, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, the reader will thrill to meet the majestic Columbian Mammoth, shiver with fear at the attack of a fi erce Saber Toothed Tiger and come to love a very special Dire Wolf. She seeks and fi nds Th e People only to be threatened by an evil Dreamer who recognizes her as a threat and seeks her death. Th e Dream Hunters series will both captivate and educate the reader as they learn about the Clovis people, that early Paleo-Indian culture which has so intrigued and eluded the archaeologists for decades. Th e author has applied her fi rst hand experience as continued to back fl ap

About the Author

BIOGRAPHY OF AUTHOR Shirley East was born in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in 1942. Her childhood was spent roaming the great northern woodlands along the shores of Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior. A fascination with the plants and animals she encountered stoked her imagination with an interest in research for a career in science and illustration. When she was in her sophomore year of high school her family moved to New Mexico where she spent the next 26 years, attending first high school then higher education at both Eastern New Mexico University, in Portales, New Mexico, and The University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque. While at Eastern, she pursued a study of all the Natural Sciences, and Archaeology, working at the famous Blackwater Draw Location #1. In 1964 she uncovered one of the most significant finds at Blackwater Draw, (although its significance would not be realized until later) a hand dug well. That same year, she received her B.S. Degree in Anthropology and took a position as Assistant to the Department of Anthropology where she developed first the Paleo Indian Institute Museum, on the campus of Eastern, and later the Blackwater Draw Museum located between Portales and Clovis, N. M. She did extensive work with the local amateur archaeologists cataloguing their private collections of artifacts, and compiling technical illustrations of the artifacts for the university records. In 1968 she received her Master=s Degree and continued to work on laboratory research. Due to health reasons, (too much sun), she retreated to teaching where she continued until 1983, when she moved to Tucson, Arizona. In 1994 she was invited to return to Blackwater Draw at the invitation of the Smithsonian Institute to relocate and again excavate the hand dug well. (she had preserved and reburied it in 1964.) Its excavation was a complete success and is now a National Monument. In 1995 with the aid of the University of Arizona Library, and the resources available to her through her work in the field and the internet, she began gathering background data for the undertakings she had planned. In 1996 she began writing the rough draft for The Dream Hunters series, about the Clovis Culture, and since then she has added books about The Bison Hunters, (the Folsom Culture), The Spirit Hunters, (the Agate Basin Culture), and The Chosen (Pre Clovis Culture). Shirley now lives in beautiful Alamogordo, New Mexico, east of the White Sands National Monument with her husband, Jack. She continues to write….