When I was fifteen I sent an article to Outdoor Life Magazine about my father and I on a couple of big game hunts. The story was rejected as it wasn’t of the quality for their magazine. I was somewhat disappointed, but at least I tried. I didn’t write anything else until I was asked, as a licensed land surveyor, to give a presentation on surveying to a college class. Putting it all down on paper, re-reading, and editing seemed a fun and interesting thing to do. Before being licensed, I had thought about the different ways an individual could make money on an ongoing basis. I couldn’t sing worth a hoot to make a record, and had no interest in musical instruments. Writing was the only other potential I could think of. I started to write articles for the state surveyors magazine, telling of unusual incidents while surveying. I didn’t seriously consider writing a novel until I was in my fifties.

I was semi-retired and was living in a motor home between Arizona and B.C. Canada, depending on the time of year. This full time motor home thing was because our house didn’t sell for three years. I had been considering writing a novel similar to an actual incident that happened to a U.S. Forest Service surveyor, who was killed on a mountain top in Montana by an escapee from a mental institution. While in Arizona I had the time; keyboard on my lap, the monitor and desktop on a board between the driver and passenger seat, and with the small television on, I wrote the complete story, which took place where I had surveyed in the Colorado mountains. That novel is titled, 'Third Man On The Mountain,' an e-book.

In 1999 I spent my summers in BC Canada. I was aware of a 1930's telegraph line through northern BC, and doing some research found that an 1864 telegraph line was racing against the Atlantic telegraph to see who could reach Europe first. Curious, I began to investigate further and that led to my first historical novel titled "The Last 300 Miles,' published in 2001 and was a BC bestseller. That book is now on Amazon and other e-book formats by the original publisher, but under G. Stewart Nash. Since then my interest has been in historical novels and has currently led to a historical accounting of the only railroad exploration across the northern Rocky Mountains in 1853-54, and a subsequent military road in 1864 from Fort Benton, MT to Walla Walla WA, 630 miles in length. Now, the research and putting together historical accountings are my joy in writing. I like using as much action and adventure as pertinent to the story.

I'm not an everyday writer. When I do, I find myself working at it for four hours straight, wondering where the time has gone. I've been a hunter and fisherman since my early teens. In 2001 we sold the motor home and of all the places I have lived and worked throughout the western states and Canada as a land surveyor, I pondered about where I would most like to live. The Helena, MT area won out. It had great hunting and fishing, plus the surrounding area has some of the best all- around gold prospecting potential of anywhere else I've been. I fly fish small streams and rivers and take the boat out on a 20 mile long reservoir, the first along the Missouri River. We pan for gold, and I use a drywasher close to home. I smoke trout, make wild game jerky, and barbeque regularly.