Video: Welcome to Cooke City!

Welcome to Cooke City! You’ll note a few familiar stops from Ethan and Jack’s journey – Miner’s Saloon on your left, followed by the Cooke City General Store. To the right, Hoosier’s Bar. Not named after anything Indiana-related, but it makes me feel at home all the...

Bounce Across The Beartooths, September 2010

 Bounce Across The Beartooths, September, 2010: The daily log of an intrepid expedition. Day One: Easton and I are met in Minneapolis by the third of our four-man party, Captain Bob Bley. He mentions that his real first name is William, but that he changed it after...

Video: Top of the Pass

This is at the top of the Beartooth Highway – note that snow! Taken in late June. Yes, you read that right – June. The Beartooths have the largest block of contiguous alpine tundra in the lower...
Return to the scene of the crimes…

Return to the scene of the crimes…

Now this is what a book tour should be like! I’m sitting at a table outside of the Bearclaw Bakery in Cooke City, MT (year-round population 110 at last census, it is a CDP or “census-designated place”) and a friend I met last year, Cathy Pate, (whose son, Nick, played...
The real cats behind THE RIDGE

The real cats behind THE RIDGE

Discussed in Parade Magazine and on NPR. More to come about the Exotic Feline Rescue Center around release of the paperback edition of THE RIDGE. Couldn’t think of a more worthy cause for those considering a unique Christmas gift — sponsor a big cat!...

The Silent Hour

This is the first time I’ve ever had two editions released in the same week. On Tuesday, the mass market paperback of Envy the Night will hit shelves, along with the hardcover release of The Silent Hour, the newest book and a return to Lincoln Perry....