David M Delo: 8 books

This book is a memoir about how the conscious and unconscious roles manic depression and creativity have shaped my life. I was fifty-eight years old when I discovered that for most of my adult life, I had been manic depressive (Bi-Polar II). Twenty years ago, as I sorted through the ashes of my erratic...

The life of Albert Bierstadt is the story of a talented, "larger-than-life artist" who appeared out of nowhere, rose to the top of the art world in New York City, then crashed and burned because he lost his way to earthly glamour. At age twenty-one, he traveled to Dusseldorf, Germany, and...

Edith leaves home for Carter Station to teach. Martin's position as a clerk for a store in Bear River City ends when the town is destroyed by a riot. He ends up working for Judge Carter at Carter Station. Martin and Edith reunite. Her background as a suffragette helps South Pass City's women get the...

Margaret Bourke-White was the ACE photographer for both FORTUNE and LIFE MAGAZINES between 1929 and 1957. Before she reached 3o years of age, she was rich and famous. She rose to the top of her almost-all male profession: beautiful, focused, and determined. She always got the shot she was after. She...

The trilogy tells of both Martin, and a Missouri Quaker girl, Edith, who head west in 1864. They fall in love on the banks of the Missouri, then separate. Each works through 4 rough years, then reunite in Wyoming. Martin becomes a military post trader, they marry, and settle at Martin's post on the...

Our first national park was created during a scandalous period of American history─Mark Twain’s “Gilded Age,” when money led to power and power led to reputation. The park was a result not from chance nor popular demand but from (1) a blend of the interests and energy of five energetic men...

Touch has left the US Army to become a San Francisco photojournalist. He resides in Sausalito with a parrot named Hypo and hot and cold-running women. At a Chinese wedding, Touch finds the bride's sister at the bottom of the Narrows Cliff, and that night he is savagely beaten. He ends up using a cane....

Horatio Delmer Touchstone, known as "Touch" lives just outside Paris and works in civilian clothes as a Counter Intelligence agent for the US Army in Paris in the mid 1960s. When he leaves for a two-week vacation across the Alps, and finds himself in increasing personal danger. His analytical...