i have lived here in Wyoming along the foot hills of the Wind River Mountains for over 55 years now and there is no place i would rather be. I grew up hunting and fishing in both the mountains and the vast Red Desert that stretches out for hundreds of miles right here in my back yard. Growing up right next to the Wind River Indian Reservation, i had the good fortune of having many good native friends and learned from them a lifetime of stories about the folk lore that surrounds the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes. Even though my books are fiction many of the places and tales come from the culture