Dear Readers!
We are adding the final editorial changes requested by our editor, then BUFFALO JUSTICE will be off to the publisher. It should be available in July, we think. Having owned buffalo for over 30 years, it was an especially interesting book to write. It’s set in our home country of northern Wyoming and southern Montana, where we’ve lived for 47 years, country we know and love.
The story is about a buffalo rancher named John Cody who lives at the edge of Yellowstone. It explores the joys and struggles of raising an iconic American species in the face of overwhelming pressures from unethical “conservation” groups, bad scientists trying to make a buck, and clueless government agencies. The challenges that John Cody faces are challenges we have faced. While fictionalized to protect the guilty, John’s problems are not fiction.
LATEST RE-RELEASES!
PEOPLE OF THE RAVEN, part 1 of the Kennewick Man story, was just released a few days ago. Part 2, RAVEN STORM, comes out in about a month and is up for pre-order at Amazon. If you have the original edition of PEOPLE OF THE RAVEN, you do NOT need these books! The only changes we’ve made to the new editions are updates of the archaeological information.
If you’ve never read PEOPLE OF THE RAVEN, here’s the scientific background…
In the fall of 1996, Dr. Jim Chatters, adjunct professor at Central Washington University and deputy coroner for Benton County, Washington, sent an urgent email to several American anthropologists saying, “Subject: Need Help ASAP.”
He had in his hands an archaeological discovery that would rock the nation, and he knew it. The specimen would come to be called “Kennewick Man” and prove to be one of the most controversial archaeological finds in the history of the world.
When Kennewick Man was discovered eroding out of the banks of the Columbia River, it appeared to be a simple case. Obviously he was a Caucasoid male, forty-five to fifty-five years old, probably a White pioneer.
Then a CAT scan revealed a distinctive leaf-shaped prehistoric spear point embedded in his hip. Shortly thereafter, the radiocarbon laboratory returned their analysis of the date: Kennewick Man was over 9,000 years old.
But weren’t we all taught that only “Native American” people, that is, Mongoloid people, were here that long ago?
A few days after the C14 dates were released, the Army Corps of Engineers ordered Jim Chatters to immediately halt all scientific research and relinquish the bones. In the end, the Corps would defy orders from both Houses of Congress to leave the site alone and would cover the burial site with six hundred tons of earth and debris. You might think this smacks of lunacy, but this is a complicated story.
PEOPLE OF THE RAVEN is a novel about Kennewick Man. It’s a fascinating story of the limits of science and asks a very important question: Does the American government play favorites, granting more rights to some religions than others?
Buy the Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1639776761
Thank you for reading. Books are worlds in and of themselves. We hope you enjoy the many worlds that we have created.