Fictional love as a middle aged "night life" reporter from Kansas City is forced to retire early, purchases a motor home and stikes out to discover what's out there in the literary world on his own. He meets a gourgous, troubled female on his very first day of freedom. He wrangles an interview for purely selfish reasons and dicovers that she is a distant decendant of the fabled Calamity Jane from (1863) Princeton, MO. Christine Cannary McClanahan, (the gorgous red head) becomes John Bikerdyke's love interest and with several setbacks and ironic developments, the couple eventually embark on a...

Charlie was a famous Missouri rodeo horse. His owner decided that he was too old and brittle to participate in the usual antics of roping, riding and parade leading. At age twenty-seven, Charlie and his friend Dobbie, decide to escape from their pasture to see the world. Experiences for the next few years were exciting and fruitfull, as they traveled together to historical landmarks in the midwest. Mostly fictional, but written from a horse's point of view. For adults and children that love horses.

Most people have used the colloquialism, "What in Sam Hill?" Few, however, know of his accomplishments as an entrepreneur around the turn of the 20th century. This biographical study follows the amazing life of an Empire Builder, as he associates with finaciers and inventors, like J. P Morgan, Thomas Edison, Alexander Bell, Grover Cleveland, Henry Ford, Queen Marie of Romania, and the incomperable women in his life like Mary Hill, Loie Fuller and Mona Bell. His architecture and advanced design of such stuctures as Maryhill Museum, and his own commemorative Stonehenge, near Portland, Oregon,...