Art Isberg
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This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
The author has been a freelance writer for 29 years, and in that period of time his stories have appeared,in such monthly journals as Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Sports Afield, Safari, Saltwater Fisherman, Wing & Shot, Hunting Classics, Daily Republic newspapers, historical societies, western Outdoors, Deer and Deer Hunting, Western Angler, Rifle, Harris Publications, American Hunter, Petersen's Hunting Bugle, Bottles and Relics, and Western Treasures, to name but a few. He has had over 170 features published by these and other magazines and newspapers.He is 62 years old and now retired after a 36 year career as a construction carpenter, foreman, and supervisor. He is the father of three grown sons, Mark, Troy, and Craig, and has been married to his wife, Ruth Delores for 42 years. He is also the grandfather of four young children, two boys and two girls.
His freelance writing has been a serious and important part of his life as well as a substantial part of his earnings over the years. His early retirement at age 59, has allowed him to concentrate even more time on writing, and he has produced five book length manuscripts over the last three years. Two were hunting related and titled "Mountains, Myths and Mule Deer," about hunting our great Westerner, and "Outdoor Reflections of the 1940's" a biograpahical boyhood novel about growing up in California's Coast Range mountains with rod and reel from ages 8 thru 16. The last three books are all fictional westerns, "The Plainsman," "The Search for the Golden Bucket Mine," and "The Americano's" which he has just completed.
Because of his great interest in western history and other outdoor subjects are long, deep, and varied, he expects to continue writing at the same pace in the years ahead.
This title was nominated for the Frankfurt eBook Awards.
The places, events, and Indian wars depicted in this book are real, not fictional, but with the story line and its characters wound throughout these references, it gives the story the weight of authenticity, a believability that makes fiction somehow fact.
This stories centerpiece is about a rough hewn outdoors man named Noah Donner, a buffalo hunter and his adventuress life hunting the great shaggies first in Kansas then northern Texas and his deadly tangles with the Redman of those buffalo plains that eventually kill his entire crew of helpers and skinners forcing him to flee north for his life. In the process, he comes upon Mexican comancheros trading illegally with the Indians and discovers a captured white women who has been forced to be the slave of their savage chief, Running Wolf. Donner kills Running Wolf in his lodge, at night, and takes the startled women on a flight north back to civilization and Kansas where she can be safe after several year's of being held prisoner by the outlaw chief.
But this women, Elizabeth Eilert does not want to stay in Dodge City long, for she wants to go west to California and start a new life, and she wants Noah, who she's fallen in love with, to take her there. After a brief stint on the Platte River and another winter of hunting buffalo, Donner does in fact finally agree to lead a wagon train to Oregon as scout, if they will take Elizabeth on without charge. The finale of the book is her repeated and desperate attempts to convince Noah to give up the free life of buffalo hunting and roaming the plains, and settle down with her in Oregon, but the plainsman is torn by many emotions. He has, in fact, slowly fallen in love with this strange and beautiful woman who had to endure being the mistress of a dog Indian, but he's just as sure that it cannot work for him. He's much older than her, and he's not sure he wants to try ranching as an alternative to the free life he's always known, the only life he's really only known. It is too late for him to try to cement a stable relationship with the one woman who has ever been able to hold him, the only woman he's ever really loved like that? Or will he give it all up to return west to the big country and simply accept the fact that a love and life like that came to late in his life to try and live? That's the stories ending.
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