Norm Matteoni is a first time author of non-fiction, but a long time student of the American West and the life and times of Sitting Bull. Both a legal scholar and practicing lawyer, he has written extensively in law review articles, appellate briefs and a two volume treatise on the Law of Eminent Domain in California. A biographical sketch can be found on his law firm s website www.matteoni.com. He also is an amateur photographer; and in 2008 he photographed areas of the northern plains, home of the Lakota.