First novel by Bob Wood, "Sage", is a fast-paced Western epic sure please readers

June 28, 2011 - PRLog -- Camp Hill, PA - Sunbury Press has released Bob Wood's first novel, "Sage", the epic tale of a half-Apache orphan whose rises to the top through hard work and good fortune.

About the book:
John Coulter Sage was born on a horse ranch in southeastern Arizona in 1851. His father was an ex-mountain man and Army scout who built and operated the ranch with a Mexican partner. His mother was a Chiricahua Apache. Sage was raised in all three cultures.

Sage went to sea when he was sixteen, and was shipwrecked off Okinawa, where a Buddhist monk befriended him. He was taught to fight and think.

This is a tale of Sage's adventurous life as an Apache youth, cowboy, sailor, Mexican Vaquero, drover, deputy sheriff, and much more.

List Price: $17.95
5.5" x 8.5" (13.97 x 21.59 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
334 pages
Sunbury Press, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1934597491
ISBN-10: 193459749X
BISAC: Fiction / Westerns

About the author:
Bob Wood has worked as a cowboy, air crewman in the Navy, and professional ski patrolman at Mammoth. He worked for five summer seasons as a Wilderness Ranger. He patrolled the Ansel Adams and John Muir Wilderness areas in the Sierras for two summers on horseback, and for three summers carrying a backpack. He graduated in forestry from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and retired after thirty-five years with the US Forest Service. He currently resides with his wife Alicia in southern California.

"Bob Wood's fast-paced Western epic of John Coulter Sage--orphaned half-Apache, cowboy, gunfighter, soldier, sailor--jack-of-all-trades--is sure to please Western fans..."
the Publisher

For more information:
http://www.sunburypress.com/sage.html

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