There is an authenticity in John Duncklee's voice that you don't find in other writers of the American West today. His characters are as lively as a wild mustang stallion, and as unpredictable as the weather. If you love a good story, treat yourself to John Duncklee. Johnny D. Boggs While looking for "the pocket watch" once owned by Tyrone Running Bear's murdered father, He and his guide, Nell Muldoon travel around southern Arizona Territory where they meet various interesting characters and find themselves in sometimes exciting situations that beg solutions and bring them together in what...

Jeff Collins knew horses. He worked as a horse trainer on the Sierra Diablo Ranch in Arizona, and he was mighty good at it. But he wanted more. He'd dream for years of having his own ranch. He saw his chance when he won a blue roan in a high stakes poker game. This wasn't just any roan; it was carrying the foal of a great racehorse, and that foal was Jeff's ticket to his dreams. When that roan was stolen and herded along with other horses toward the Mexican border, Jeff knew where he had to go. But he didn't know what would be waiting for him when he got there. The border was a dangerous...

"There is an authenticity in John Duncklee's voice that you don't often find in other writers of the American West today. His characters are as lively as a wild mustang stallion, and as unpredictable as the weather. If you love a good story, treat yourself to John Duncklee. Johnny D. Boggs, Award Winning Author and recipient of the Western Heritage Wrangler and Spur-awards. "Grab the halter strap and hang on tight. Samantha Haggarty is an eastern gal newly arrived in the West. How she parlays beauty and common sense into a successful horse racing career and finds a fitting mate makes for...

"A narrative of a man's life in the southwest what brought him there and how he came to love the land, its peoples, and its challenges. John Duncklee's memoirs remind us that individualism, personal courage, and honesty can still thrive in America." Jim Woolard award winning author of Thunder in the Valley, Winds of Autumn, Blood at Dawn and Cold Moon "In his fascinating memoir, John Duncklee shows how an East Coast outcast became a cowboy, rancher, student, wrangler, teacher, environmentalist, lecturer, furniture marker, rebel, reprobate, and one of the original voices of contemporary...

If you want to know about the joy of a woman working on an Arizona cow ranch, read John Duncklee s Genevieve of Tombstone. If you like people and want to know why God loves whores, ready Genevieve of Tombstone. It is a simple, uncomplicated jewel of a book in plain talk. J. P. S. Brown, Author of Jim Kane Tombstone in the 1880's was the toughest town in the West, and it took a special kind of grit just to survive there. Ask the Earps or the Clantons. But among the gunslingers and lawmen, among the ranchers and rustlers, there was Genevieve, a woman with the spirit, toughness and heart the...

Novice rancher John Duncklee saw his share of buzzards during the 1950s while husbanding a herd of cattle through Arizona's worst drought in 400 years, and he told the story of those days in the captivating book Good Years for the Buzzards. Duncklee spend the next dew years buying Mexican steers in Sonora, farming in the Santa Cruz Valley, and raising quarter horses on a small ranch near Nogales, Arizona. During that time he found that he had to cope with a different kind of creature: coyotes-people who weren't necessarily con artists but were sly and cunning like their canine counterparts...

After two tours in Vietnam, the cruel war continues to haunt Bill O'Leary, as he tried to escape the terrifying nightmares and the nagging restlessness by becoming an itinerant banjo player. The applause from his audiences becomes his solace, dragging him away from the woman and son he loves. His wanderings and adventures take him to Wyoming, New Mexico, California, Arizona and finally, Las Vegas, Nevada. With his banjo a constant companion, he experiences love, friendship, sadness, a catharsis and ultimately contentment, as he struggles to shed the shroud of war.

Joe Holly has his assignment. The army is sending him to Fort Huachuca, deep in the heart of Apache territory. It's no easy post. Apache raiding parties are a fact of life there, and the area is known for its thieves and hardcases. But they're the least of Joe's worries. His real mission at Fort Huachuca is a secret. He's working undercover to find out who at the fort is supplying information to the gunmen who have been robbing the army's payroll deliveries. He knows he can trust no one. He knows his life is on the line if he's discovered. What he doesn't know is just how many layers of lies...

Some say that all the high technology arrived after Sputnik, and we launched the age of computers, cell phones, GPS instruments and such. But, a poem's creation is still the same; it comes from the heart, mind and soul of its poet.