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Stoneburner is a hardboiled detective story written as only William Gay could do it. The story is set in the mid 1970s and includes a jaded private eye named Stoneburner, a redneck Vietnam vet named Thibodeaux, a beautiful young blonde named Cathy Meecham and an ex-Sheriff named Cap Holder loosely based on Buford Pusser. Stoneburner is the private eye who has abandoned his office in Memphis to live on the banks of the Tennessee River where he is building a cabin. The story follows him as he meets a local retired sheriff who made a fortune when Hollywood produced a movie based on his exploits cleaning up the drug dealers in his rural county. However, now the Sheriff, Cap Holder, has run through the money on ill conceived business plans, fancy cars, big boats and expensive young girlfriends. He comes to Stoneburner when his plans to recoup his losses on a coke deal goes wrong and the young girlfriend turns up missing, both at the same time.Cap wants Stoneburner to find both the money and the girl. The redneck named Thibodeaux just happened to be in the right place at the wrong time and was able to make off with a briefcase full of drug money and the young blonde. Thibodeaux and the girl are on the run, moving across Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, leaving a trail a mile wide with Stoneburner not far behind. Thibodeaux and the girl buy a Cadillac purportedly owned by Elvis which eventually ends up in the top of a tree in the Ozarks. Stoneburner quickly figures out that he is not the only person that wants to find Thibodeaux. The drug lord, a local Nashville music producer, who was supplying the cocaine is on the trail as well.The book follows two tracks, starting with Thibodeaux who is living in rural Tennessee and getting by as best he can. He is a town drunk constantly in trouble with the law, leaving behind a string of wrecked cars and trucks. However, his luck changes one night when he figures out someone is using an abandoned airstrip to fly in drugs and cases it out until one night a plane lands and he is able to make off with a briefcase full of cash. Once he has the money he is able to pick up the blonde, who was double-crossing both Cap Holder and the drug dealers, and away they go.

This book chronicles some of the living pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona with emphasis on Zuni, Taos and Hopi and visits the greatest of the massive ruins of their predecessors at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. This book explores the ancient cultures of this region and their relationship to the living pueblos. Most people are woefully ignorant about the indigenous people who occupied this land before the European invasions. Most are equally ignorant about their descendants who are with us today. These journals offer a glimpse into the indigenous past that, for uncounted millennia, was our heritage. While all of us share an indigenous tribal heritage, for most it is lost in the haze of prehistory. However, there are avenues, ports of entry, to learn about our tribal heritage. It is possible to visit the indigenous people who have managed, by various quirks of fate and sheer determination, to bring their culture and traditions into the twenty-first century. There are presently twenty living pueblos located in the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. Of the twenty, Taos, Hopi and Zuni are outstanding examples of those who have retained their traditions in special ways. Taos and Hopi still have multistory adobe buildings that preserve the ancient architecture as a remnant, a revenant, of prehistoric times. Another avenue into this heritage is to visit the monuments of the past and see the great ruins of the cultures that preceded ours, especially those at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. There are countless ruins left by the ancestors of the pueblo peoples. They are scattered throughout the deserts and canyons, they stand as incredible reminders of the civilizations of the past. The buildings and the roadways they created are architectural and engineering marvels. This book details the traditional cultures and their ceremonies and shows the evolution from the ancient times up to the modern day.