Coming of age in the rugged and unforgiving Southwest may not suit the faint-of-heart, but it is the perfect landscape for a compelling and humorous memoir of a lad who endured a mid-1900s cowboy upbringing in rural Arizona and New Mexico. Growing Up Cowboy chronicles the foibles and fortunes of its author, Ralph Reynolds (a.k.a. Luna Kid), in an engaging and heartfelt fashion. From wrangling ornery critters to finding first love, the Luna Kid confesses all and regales the reader with vivid stories imparted with an abundance of wit and humility. So saddle up and ride along as the Luna Kid introduces you to a helping of the Southwest's fascinating terrain and colorful characters. And along the way shows you the irreverent side of adolescence adventure and the human side of growing up cowboy. Growing Up Cowboy can be found on the shelves of the National Cowboy Museum Library, and selections from the book have been reprinted by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

After searching for sixty years for a long-lost gold mine known as the Adams Diggings, Ralph Reynolds tells all he's learned. This is a rousing tale of Apache cunning and Yankee gullibility. And it's a story of lost lives, emptied souls, and misguided senses in a land of magnificent mountains, mesas, and canyons. His book delivers evidence that three or more prospecting parties were massacred after they located the diggings and the startling implications of these events. And most rewardingly, it tells how, and most likely from where, the gold nuggets were clandestinely removed late in the nineteenth century and why and where the mother lode may soon be found.

In this bittersweet visit to a simpler time in the American Southwest, Ralph Reynolds crafts a fictional story based on an old oral tradition that the Wild Bunch, an outlaw gang, invaded a New Mexico village near their hideout and shot up its Mormon church. Sparks fly when church bishop, Jim Nathan, a former lawman, confronts the gang and its leader, Butch Cassidy (a notorious fallen Mormon). Another of the outlaws, Clem, becomes smitten with the church beauty, named Deseret. He leaves the gang and joins storyteller, Scottie Abner, and Deseret in a dangerous attempt to halt a cattle drive that threatens the area. High adventure and suspense follows. There s a dramatic face-off between Bishop and Butch when the gang finds a need for Clem and comes back to get him. Praise for other works by Ralph Reynolds I think "The Killvein White" is breathtaking. It has richness, tidy and neat discrimination about the different characters, and more suspense than even George Stewart could manage in his novels about weather disasters. Glenn Leggett, author of "The Prentice-Hall Handbook for Writers" In "Growing Up Cowboy," Reynolds draws the wild beauty of his surroundings without getting trapped in cliches. Every loving description of the countryside shows his visceral attachment to the land of his birth. "Davenport Times," Iowa

The dreaded fronts have emerged at last, and they are reeling like drunken monsters toward the Wasatch Mountains. A super storm is on the way, just in time for the busiest ski weekend of the year. Samantha, a statistician for the weather bureau, believes the resorts and skiers should be warned. If the predictions hold true, twenty feet of snow could fall and many would die. Now, she just has to find someone who will listen to her.As the most dangerous snowstorm to hit the area in sixty years menaces the small town of Lucite, Utah, snow ranger Jason Stemple understands what must be done to save lives. As a series of both natural and human conflicts converge, the disaster consumes a small town."The Solid-State Tsunami" narrates story of how the human spirit rises out of crisis to fight the horror of a looming disaster with the only weapons available: altruism, courage, love, levity, hope, and humanity-along with the determination of a fearless, driven, and supremely gifted snow ranger.

Coming of age in the rugged and unforgiving Southwest may not suit the faint-of-heart, but it is the perfect landscape for a compelling and humorous memoir of a lad who endured a mid-1900s cowboy upbringing in rural Arizona and New Mexico. Growing Up Cowboy chronicles the foibles and fortunes of its author, Ralph Reynolds (a.k.a. Luna Kid), in an engaging and heartfelt fashion. From wrangling ornery critters to finding first love, the Luna Kid confesses all and regales the reader with vivid stories imparted with an abundance of wit and humility. So saddle up and ride along as the Luna Kid introduces you to a helping of the Southwest's fascinating terrain and colorful characters. And along the way shows you the irreverent side of adolescence adventure and the human side of growing up cowboy. Growing Up Cowboy can be found on the shelves of the National Cowboy Museum Library, and selections from the book have been reprinted by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

After searching for sixty years for a long-lost gold mine known as the Adams Diggings, Ralph Reynolds tells all he's learned. This is a rousing tale of Apache cunning and Yankee gullibility. And it's a story of lost lives, emptied souls, and misguided senses in a land of magnificent mountains, mesas, and canyons. His book delivers evidence that three or more prospecting parties were massacred after they located the diggings and the startling implications of these events. And most rewardingly, it tells how, and most likely from where, the gold nuggets were clandestinely removed late in the nineteenth century and why and where the mother lode may soon be found.

In this bittersweet visit to a simpler time in the American Southwest, Ralph Reynolds crafts a fictional story based on an old oral tradition that the Wild Bunch, an outlaw gang, invaded a New Mexico village near their hideout and shot up its Mormon church. Sparks fly when church bishop, Jim Nathan, a former lawman, confronts the gang and its leader, Butch Cassidy (a notorious fallen Mormon). Another of the outlaws, Clem, becomes smitten with the church beauty, named Deseret. He leaves the gang and joins storyteller, Scottie Abner, and Deseret in a dangerous attempt to halt a cattle drive that threatens the area. High adventure and suspense follows. There s a dramatic face-off between Bishop and Butch when the gang finds a need for Clem and comes back to get him. Praise for other works by Ralph Reynolds I think "The Killvein White" is breathtaking. It has richness, tidy and neat discrimination about the different characters, and more suspense than even George Stewart could manage in his novels about weather disasters. Glenn Leggett, author of "The Prentice-Hall Handbook for Writers" In "Growing Up Cowboy," Reynolds draws the wild beauty of his surroundings without getting trapped in cliches. Every loving description of the countryside shows his visceral attachment to the land of his birth. "Davenport Times," Iowa

The dreaded fronts have emerged at last, and they are reeling like drunken monsters toward the Wasatch Mountains. A super storm is on the way, just in time for the busiest ski weekend of the year. Samantha, a statistician for the weather bureau, believes the resorts and skiers should be warned. If the predictions hold true, twenty feet of snow could fall and many would die. Now, she just has to find someone who will listen to her.As the most dangerous snowstorm to hit the area in sixty years menaces the small town of Lucite, Utah, snow ranger Jason Stemple understands what must be done to save lives. As a series of both natural and human conflicts converge, the disaster consumes a small town."The Solid-State Tsunami" narrates story of how the human spirit rises out of crisis to fight the horror of a looming disaster with the only weapons available: altruism, courage, love, levity, hope, and humanity-along with the determination of a fearless, driven, and supremely gifted snow ranger.