Brought up in the fifties during the era of Saturday matinees and some twenty hours of prime-time westerns on those small boxes we fondly called TV, early on I found myself bitten by the seductive lure of the West. Yet, it was not until 1965 during my freshman year in college in Oklahoma where I was studying to become a history teacher that I was finally able to separate the History of the West from the Myth of the West. Over the intervening twenty-five years I have happily found the historic West every bit as fascinating as the mythic frontier.
You would be hard pressed to find a man happier than I—still teaching as I am thousands of readers outside the confines of the classroom about a magical epoch of expansion that roared rowdy and rambunctious across the plains and mountains of our Western frontier. A man is a success when he can put food on his family’s table doing what he loves most to do.
Over the years I’ve been cursed with the itchiest of feet, moving on frequently as did the rounders and roamers of this mountain West more than a hundred-odd years before me. My wife Rhonda wants to stay put for awhile, here in Billings along the Yellowstone, under the sun hung in that Big Sky, while we raise our two children, son Noah and daughter Erinn.
There’ll be time enough to move on, time enough for me to see what’s over the next hill. Time enough still to follow the seductive lure of tomorrow and the next valley across the years to come …
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TERRY C. JOHNSTON was born on the plains of Kansas and has immersed himself in the history of the early West. His first novel, Carry the Wind, won the Medicine Pipe Bearer’s Award from the Western Writers of America, and his subsequent books, among them Cry of the Hawk, Dream Catcher, Buffalo Palace, Crack in the Sky, and the Son of the Plains trilogy, have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the country.
Copyright © 1991 by Terry C. Johnston.
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