"Butte may be the most unplastic place in America." Molly Ivins "Butte was mercurial .... The wicked, wealthy, full-blooded little city welcomed me with wild enthusiasm of the most disorderly kind." Theodore Roosevelt In the town that produced Evel Knievel, a plane that attempts to land on a city street is not a surprise, unless the pilot disappears and leaves a dead man in his place. When a Cessna 180 crashes into a miner's cottage in historic uptown Butte, two men flee the plane, leaving behind a third who isn't talking. He's dead. Did the victim, a high-profile ex-con, deserve this fate?...

The Golden Raft's story begins in the mountains of Peru during the early 1500s when the Spanish Conquistadors invaded their land. Follow this Village as they leave their homeland in search of a new life. Even The Amazon River and the Atlantic Ocean couldn't stop this band of people trying to survive a massacre. 59 men, women and children without any weapons beat the odds with only what they could carry on their person. After weeks floating on rafts on the Amazon River and then trusting the currents of the Atlantic Ocean they came ashore in Northern Florida. What they left behind in their new...

What the heck have you done now, Kate? Kate was my mom and yes she did raise chickens in half of our house. Broilers to be more specific, a broiler factory. The collection of Short Stories here are actual experiences from my life. And in 80 years you can acquire a bunch of them from Polio at age four to Expo 67 and many stops in between including combat experience during the Korean War while serving in the 40th Infantry Division. Where were you when Sputnik 1 made its first trip around the world on October 4, 1957? Follow along as the local Veterinarian performs surgery on my father's right...

The Golden Raft Comes Home After a 'Google' search indicated to us the value of the Golden Raft we decided to smuggle it out of the United States and into a safe spot in the Bahamas. Next on our list was to find a buyer for our multimillion dollar Golden Raft. Join us as we dodge the State that thought we had disturbed an Archeological Site where we found the raft and the I.R.S. wanting to collect the Taxes. One thing is for sure you can't beat the odds and become a millionaire whilst sitting on your butt watching TV. There is opportunity everywhere you look.

Jack and Gail Dillon and their daughters have returned home from a very exciting and lucrative trip to Bogota, Columbia and are enjoying their home when a chance fishing trip with a neighbor unlocks the secret in the top of the box that the Golden Raft was found in. Join the Dillon's in this exciting adventure that is completed in Central Florida. The trips on a Gulfstream G-650 make life worthwhile too.