A Little Introduction

I am the author of the novel They Looked West. I have many years of time and research into this series of novels. I have brought to the reader a culmination of events that transpired on the frontiers of this nation in 1869. The plot is gripping and the reader can take a trip in time back to the days of old. The stories of the Indians and the scouts were put together from research and folklore collected over time. The characters in the novel were sculpted from real-life heroes and villains of the plains era. I have spent many countless hours in the saddle traversing and riding the windswept plains and badlands of Eastern Wyoming and Western Nebraska. Taking notes on the terrain and conditions that the characters portrayed in the novel must have witnessed and lived. 

The setting for the novel is a vast expanse of prairie, small waterways, and rugged badlands. Even today the areas described in the book are fairly barren of civilization. In writing this book, I used what limited skills I have developed through college and life’s hard lessons. I used my expertise on horses to a vast degree. I have owned and taken stewardship of horses and mules since an early boyhood age. The techniques of trail life with horses as displayed in the novel came from a lifetime of riding and packing these animals in the vast wildernesses of Western America. I have explored the Trader’s Creek area many times in search of the lost gold nuggets only to come away empty-handed. But the lure of the treasure is real and the ghosts of the fallen still haunt the area to this very day. 

My goal in writing this book is to have people from all ages and all walks of life, take a few minutes out of their busy lives and read this novel. It will take them back to a bye gone era of true values and heroes along with a mind witness to the perils that the expanse of civilization brought to those that trespassed nature's course in frontier America.