Retired out of the Air Force, knocked around the corporate world for a while, and then got hooked on blogging, which led to writing historical novels about the Wild (or not-so-wild) West!

My first novel, "To Truckee's Trail" was about the first wagon-train party to take wagons over the Sierra Nevada: they got stuck in the snow and stranded for a few months, but escaped the dreadful fate of the Donner Party.

The "Adelsverein Trilogy" is about the German-sponsored settlements in frontier Texas, during the mid-19th century, where there were a dozen towns and villages in one county and parts of several others where the only language heard in the streets was German ... another great and practically unknown story of the frontier.