You just can't make this stuff up. The best Hollywood script writers are no match for the odd turns of fate, the twists of fortune, and the dramatic events that actually happen in real life. Here are real conspiracies, historical legends, mysterious murders, social scandals, and a horse thief who quite literally gets caught with his pants down. Inquests are often forgotten as a historical source, frequently lost in the glow of subsequent and more sensational public trials. Yet because of how the system operates, they are many times the most immediate and timely reconstruction of the scene and...

A computer specialist in 1998 disappears in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. An archaeologist in 2004 discovers something in the Red Desert that should not be there. A bio-physicist and his associates in 2158 decide to invoke their Native American heritage and devise a means and manner to go back in time and alter American history to their ancestor's advantage. An observer from 2543 traveling in a sphere of organic technology notices these events and may have his own agenda. Decisions, decisions, choices to be made, consequences unseen. Chaos or salvation? Mystic traditions, Native...