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BIOGRAPHIES & HISTORIES

Harry A. Longabaugh alias “The Sundance Kid”

                 Harry Longabaugh was a dangerous man. He may have been one of the most dangerous, volatile men ever to have lived in the Old West. But he was much more than that.

                 Harry Longabaugh was a refined genius who championed freedom and independence, albeit with a larcenous bent. He made the transition from horseback banditry to

                 automobile bank robbery, from six-gun to machine gun, from outlawry to war and revolution - - and he survived it all.

Wild Irish Rose — Etta Place

                 Etta Place, the wife of both Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is often described as the most beautiful and the wildest of all of the women of the Old West. More has been

                 written about her and less is known about her than any other female outlaw of her era. She is simultaneously the most legendary and most mysterious woman of the Wild

                 West. The final chapter of her incredible will be told at last.

The Dime Novel Kid — Harvey Logan alias “Kid Curry”

                 Harvey Logan, also known as Kid Curry, was a notorious outlaw and gunman who ran with Butch Cassidy’s infamous Wild Bunch gang. Despite being less well known than

                 his counterparts, he has since been referred to as "the wildest of the Wild Bunch".

Last of the Horseback Outlaws —The Life & Times of Matt Warner

                 Matt Warner’s own auto- biography The Last of the Bandits Riders, published near the time of his death in 1938, is embellished with “lies and damned lies”, most of which

                 were to protect his living friends, such as Butch Cassidy. Utilizing information provided by Matt’s children, Boyo and Joyce Warner, tells the story which Matt omitted from

                 his own book. A must read for those who want to know the full story of the life and times of this enigmatic western character.

Daughter of Destiny — Bettie Weaver

                 Betty Jane Weaver is not a name familiar to researchers, but she was arguably one of the most intriguing and controversial characters ever to come out of that twilight era

                 between the death of the Old West and the birth of the Roaring Twenties. A scion of the West’s greatest family of bank and train robbers, and she followed in the footsteps of

                 both mother and father.  This is her incredible life story.

Hell’s Canyon on the Outlaw Trail — Cleophas J. Dowd

                 Cleophas J. Dowd remains one of the most controversial and mysterious characters of the Old West, yet few people today recognize his name or are aware of who he was,

                 although he was not only Utah's greatest lawman, but probably the greatest gunman of his era.

The High Uintahs —  God’s Country

                 The High Uintahs is not the usual dry history of dates and places, but the stories of living and breathing individuals with all of their foibles and family skeletons exposed.

                 Both of the author’s grandfathers were pioneers to this region, and he brings to the pages of the book that unique flavor of personal acquaintance with the topic which he

                 writes about. The High Uintahs is a walk through time which will leave you with an image of the Old West that will live long after the last page is turned.

 

 

INNISFAIL

Innisfail is a life’s research into the “esoteric” history of mankind. A philosophical novel, based upon true teachings, its two main characters will reveal their struggles with organized world religions and their subsequent freedom through the truth. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? These are arguably the most important questions we ask ourselves. There has hardly been a human being who ever lived who has not asked himself/herself these questions. We strive to find the answers but they remain ever elusive, ever uncertain, ever probing. What is the true history of the world in which we live? How did it all come about? Are we just random creations of a chaotic universe or is there a plan and a purpose for our being? Innisfail is a novel calculated to answer these questions, and much more.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY A View From the Point of the Mountain

Imagine that you have lived a life of unabridged freedom, and suddenly that freedom was wrested from you for no good reason. What if you were accused of a crime that you did not commit and you were forced to spend 23 years in prison. How would you feel? What would your feelings be as you looked through the bars of your cell, or saw the world through chain link fences and razor wire? Where would your memories go? The author of this work suffered that very fate, and during the 23 nightmare years of imprisonment, thoughts of that former freedom haunted the visions of his mind and memory, and inspired this unique perspective of both sides of freedom. This book is not so much about the injustice and imprisonment as it is a reflection of the past and a remembrance of freedom lost. The writer of this work grew to manhood in the shadow of the high Uintahs, Utah’s loftiest mountain range, isolated from the rest of the world, was a throwback in time, a place where, as one friend wrote, “the Old West stayed young.” A View from the Point of the Mountain is the author’s reflections upon the loss of freedom and his memories of when that freedom was sweet and precious. It is a look at ourselves through the lives of people whose stories remind us of the importance of freedom and the cost of losing it.

THE HALLELJAH TRAIL

The Hallelujah Trail is the remarkable story of the Potter family, ancestors of the author, who were pioneers to Utah. The story is basically that of two brothers, William Washington Potter and Gardner Godfrey Potter, and two cousins, sons of the brothers mentioned, all of whom lived adventure-filled lives and all of whom died bloody deaths. It follows the pioneer story of William Washington Potter who was murdered by Danites and Indians in the Gunnison Massacre of 1853; his brother Gardner Godfrey Potter, who was an infamous Mormon Danite murdered by his own kind in 1857; William’s son, Gardner Godfrey Potter, named in honor of his uncle, who became the murderous avenger of his father’s death; and Ike Potter, Utah’s first outlaw.  The Hallelujah Trail is the remarkable saga of one family who signed their fates in blood for the sake of exploration and personal freedom.