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Crisis on the Stinkingwater
West of Johnson County, and pre-dating it's 'war' by a half-dozen years, was another bitter Wyoming cattleman/homesteader conflict. Set amid the wild and beautiful land Buffalo Bill Cody later made socially palatable by changing its river's name from the Stinkingwater to the Shoshone, Jethro Spring again seeks fortune's breeze and reaps fury's whirlwind, this time by filing a public land homestead claim on a remote and unwanted corner of land claimed by an avaricious and lawless cattleman who detests thoughts of a hated nester on his land.
Crisis On The Stinkingwater is fifth in the Valediction for Revenge series; tales of Jethro Spring who, this time, struggles for his mind, as well as body and soul. Can outsiders, such as Sam, and Lillian and August Mathers--who rally to Jethro's side--save him?
275 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2004
About the author
Roland Cheek
27 books11 followersThere are, I suppose, febrile savants who reject any notion that a person can acquire the writing art outside those hallowed halls of academia. Yet storytellers captured audiences for millenniums before Oxford or Harvard were more than forest enclaves where wild turnips sprout.
There's dissent, of course, holding the cloistered academic life to be poor training grounds for the kinds of riveting stories audiences wish to hear or read. My particular PhD came from God's own university of wild places and wilder things. My Culture might best be described as the Campfire kind, backed up against the inky black of star-filled nights, regaling saucer-eyed guests with tales of wilderness adventure, while horses stomped at picket lines and coyotes howled at a rising moon.
My doctoral thesis came during three decades of narratives about those wild places and wilder things; wonders saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt; crafted for Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and Sports Afield. My column was syndicated over two decades to 17 newspapers, and I hosted a coast-to-coast radio show with 210,000 listeners airing on 75 stations across America. Then I turned my attention to books: a baker's dozen novels and wildlife and adventure nonfiction titles, all self-published to great success, all flavored with real-life experiences.
What's my point? That one can have adventure AND learn to write very well indeed (despite academic disdain for anyone outside their comfortable inner circle); well enough indeed to tell the conventional publishing world to go to hell--that I'll publish my own stuff.
More successfully.
And at greater profit
There's dissent, of course, holding the cloistered academic life to be poor training grounds for the kinds of riveting stories audiences wish to hear or read. My particular PhD came from God's own university of wild places and wilder things. My Culture might best be described as the Campfire kind, backed up against the inky black of star-filled nights, regaling saucer-eyed guests with tales of wilderness adventure, while horses stomped at picket lines and coyotes howled at a rising moon.
My doctoral thesis came during three decades of narratives about those wild places and wilder things; wonders saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt; crafted for Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and Sports Afield. My column was syndicated over two decades to 17 newspapers, and I hosted a coast-to-coast radio show with 210,000 listeners airing on 75 stations across America. Then I turned my attention to books: a baker's dozen novels and wildlife and adventure nonfiction titles, all self-published to great success, all flavored with real-life experiences.
What's my point? That one can have adventure AND learn to write very well indeed (despite academic disdain for anyone outside their comfortable inner circle); well enough indeed to tell the conventional publishing world to go to hell--that I'll publish my own stuff.
More successfully.
And at greater profit
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February 23, 2013
Crisis on the Stinkingwater is fifth in Valediction For Revenge series. I'm Roland's promo mgr. jane. Here's my take on this book: West of Johnson County, and pre-dating it's 'war' by a half-dozen years, was another bitter Wyoming cattleman / homesteader conflict. Can outsiders, such as Sam Buttercut, and Lillian and August Mathers--who rally to protagonist, Jethro Spring's side--save him in his struggle for mind, body and soul?
Jethro Spring again seeks fortune's breeze and reaps fury's whirlwind, this time by filing a public land homestead claim on a remote and unwanted corner of land claimed by an avaricious and lawless cattleman who detests any thought of a hated nester on land he claims.
You turn the pages intrigued (and surprised) with what comes next.
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