Duke's Great Escape is the first book in the series The Adventures of Duke. All of the stories in the series are based on true events.

As a young boy, Duke and I grew up in the small coal mining town of Crumpler, West Virginia. We lived in the beautiful mountains of southern West Virginia with open country allowing us to do a lot of exploring together. Our exploring expeditions would be spent walking through the woods in the mountains enjoying all that nature had to offer. We would see different kinds of trees and plants such as maple trees, oak trees, black walnut...

Sledding, Duke Style is the second book in the series The Adventures of Duke. All of the stories in the series are based on true events.

Living in the mountains of West Virginia during the winter season was nothing short of amazing. Although all of the beautiful leaves had fallen from the trees, the winter snows on the mountainside would bring a fresh array of beauty allowing for many winter adventures.

Duke loved the snow as much as I did and we always looked forward to the winter season. We would wrestle around in the snow in our...