"Valley of Silent Drums" is a story of the epical encounter of the Lewis & Clark Expedition with the Nez Perce Indians in Idaho in 1805 and the deadly catastrophes that struck the Indians in the Pacific Northwest during the following 70 years. Bill York combines fiction and history to weave a compelling saga of Native American eminence and their final solution to overwhelming tribulations.

York has hosted wilderness documentaries for Georgia Public Television. He has canoed major rivers in North America and recently lived a month in a teepee on the Nez Perce reservation in Idaho...

"Episodes of Revenge" is a saga about the life of a reclusive man that experienced a mind-numbing assortment of pivotal decisions during his life and his resolute reactions to each. Early in his life Jeff Dunbar was advised by his brother to stand on his own two feet and be a reactionary when survival was in jeopardy. The death of Jeff's only brother in the Battle of the Bulge was a catalyst that precipitated his behavioral eccentricities. Dunbar's determined philosophy is Two Eyes for An Eye.

This work is a biography of John Fox, Jr. It draws from personal and family correspondence and covers his entire life, from his birth in Stony Point, Kentucky, in 1862, to his death from pneumonia in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, in 1919. His early life and education at his father's school, his two years at Transylvania University in Lexington, his transfer to Harvard and graduation in 1883, his work for New York newspapers, and his return home in the mid-1880s to work with his half-brother in the coal mines are all documented. In the 1880s he began his first novel, A Mountain Europa, and over the...