David G Rasmussen: 4 books

LEGEND OF THE DREAMER begins where LEGEND OF THE WYAKIN ends. Cortez Modrables is entering into the Nez Perce family of is friend, Samuel. But, he has considered returning to the White-dominated culture that he feels abandon him. Cortez finds that the Indians want him to join them. They show caring and...

It's 1865 in the Montana wilderness. Cholera ravages a riverboat bound for Fort Benton and the goldfields beyond, forcing the boat and its disgruntled passengers ashore in the rugged Missouri River Breaks region. Tragedy ensues, leaving a young Jewish immigrant, Cortez Modrables, alone, truly a stranger...

Beneficio Duran is like the wild lava capped mesa where he lived all but the last two years of his eighty-three. They are both remnants of the past. Black Mesa survived eons of erosion by its had basaltic cap--Beneficio survived by living with the pride and rough wisdom of los Castizos, his ancestors....

The Man Who Moiled for Gold draws its title from the Robert W. Service poem: The Cremation of Sam McGee. This popular work portrays the lust for gold, the passion for the search, and the elusive success that brought men and women to remote areas without laws or justice. The poem also tells of suffering,...