Monthly Archives: July 2008

People of the Weeping Eye Writing People of the Weeping Eye has been a labor of years. Depicting the rich variability of Mississippian archaeology in all of its complexity was a daunting challenge. As the epic of Trader, Old White, and Morning Dew played out, the manuscript grew ever larger. As a result the publisher made the decision to break the story into two books: People of the Weeping Eye and People of the Thunder.

The Betrayal There is an alternate story of the life of Jesus. It is a very human story, one that has been suppressed for nineteen centuries. The early Church fathers found the books that chronicled this story so menacing that they outlawed them, ordered them burned, and threatened anyone found copying them with death. Based on actual documents recovered from archaeological sites in the Middle East, or respected repositories of ancient literature, like the Vatican library.

When we reintroduced bison to Red Canyon Ranch we had an emotional as well as intellectual interest. Humans came within a whisker of exterminating the bison. There might have been two thousand left when General Phil Sheridan lobbied the Texas legislature in the late 1800s to kill a bill that would have protected the bison. Somewhere around one thousand bison survived in the United States and Canada. From them we have rebuilt the North American herds until over three hundred thousand are living — mostly on private ranches — in the U.S. and Canada.

Hello everybody and welcome to the ALL NEW MONTHLY MIDDEN web blog. The Gears have launched a brand new web site and the Gear-Gear blog is one feature of our new web presence. We hope lots of friends, readers and bison enthusiasts will tune in to find out about upcoming new books, read exclusive author comments, learn more about our bison ranch and more.