Shroom World of the Dragon is part of a series about an ancient dinosaurian civilization. Each book stands by itself and can be read alone or with the others. If you enjoy stories such as Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, you should check out Shroom World of the Dragon. Cross the solar system—travel back in time—buy this adventure-packed tale today!
Did dinosaurs fall in love? Read this book and find out! Once upon a time (sixty-five million years ago) there was a dinosaur princess named Idori. After being evicted from her nest for a crime she did not commit, she gave up on Earth and fled to the planet we call Mars. The dinosaurs called it the Rust World. Along the way she met a male warrior from the enemy nest named Pirriq. Pirriq started...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapters 22 and 23 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1996 visit to Cedar Breaks National Monument in southern Utah. The visit took place in the same year as the second Ameritrek. In this booklet, you can...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 18 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1995 visit to White Bird Battlefield Nez Perce National Historical Park in Idaho. It is in the vicinity of the Salmon River, also known as The River of No...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 19 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1995 visit to Hells Canyon in Idaho. According to Wikipedia, Hells Canyon is the deepest river gorge in North America. At one point the top-to-bottom...
Life was lived on a grand scale during the Age of the Dinosaurs. There were giant pterosaurs in the air and great beasts on the land and in the sea. There were also oversized insects. What if there were ants as big as your arm? What if their brains were linked together by radio waves to form one vast, thinking colony organism? What if these ants with their networked insect brains were like the...
Major "Bad Boy" Banduur was an unusual fellow. He was a test pilot of the latest military aircraft; he was a priest; when he gazed up into the night sky, he dreamed of all the wonders that could be; he had claws and talons and feathers and scales and a long, prehensile tail; he was an intelligent dinosaur who flourished sixty-five million years ago.... Banduur wanted to explore the stars but he...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 23 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1995 visit to Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona. When he showed up he was handed a brochure that proclaimed "You are at one of the most extraordinary places...
Lee Slayer listened in growing outrage to his friend Blaine. A local handyman was stealing stones from an abandoned church near Blaine’s property. The thief was building fancy walls and fences throughout the county. Business was good. Of course it was: the materials were free! Slayer wasn’t surprised to hear that the police hadn’t done anything and weren’t going to do anything. Slayer was fifty...
What if a very long time ago there existed on this Earth a species with intelligence as great as or greater than Homo sapiens? What if this ancient creature ruled the entire planet and half the solar system? What if this creature's civilization rose and fell and disappeared into the mists of Time? What if evidence of this lost world remained buried for tens of millions of years? What if—one...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 8 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1996 visit to Wisconsin's highpoint, Timms Hill. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Timms Hill is the 39th-highest...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 26 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1995 hike to the top of Guadalupe Peak in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. Guadalupe Peak is the Texas highpoint, or highest naturally occurring...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapters 14 and 15 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1995 visit to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana. The visit took place in the same year as the first Ameritrek, the subject...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 33 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1996 visit to Oklahoma's highpoint, Black Mesa. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Black Mesa is the 23rd-highest...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 3 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Minnesota's highpoint, Eagle Mountain. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Eagle Mountain is the 37th-highest...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 12 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's1996 visit to North Dakota's highpoint, White Butte. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. White Butte is the 30th...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 8 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This booklet is about the author's 1995 visit to Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of a massacre of Native Americans in 1890. You can travel vicariously to that infamous place and sample the writing at...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 31 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1996 visit to Capulin Volcano National Monument in New Mexico. The visit took place in the same year as the second Ameritrek, the subject of the main book...
What would you do if you won the world's biggest lottery? Bolon faced that situation. Sixty-five million years ago, he suddenly found himself one of the richest dinosaurs in the Mesozoic Age. The pleasant shock of sudden wealth soon turned into a big problem, a problem of his own making, because he had a dream, a dangerous dream, and now he could afford to try to make it come true. Bolon's...
Lojor was the Einstein of the dinosaur world, and he had a problem. His government wanted him to invent the hydrogen bomb. Lojor did not know how to do this, and he did not want to learn because he was opposed to the idea. But the demands on him were relentless, and he had to come up with something. Lojor was an astrophysicist. He wanted to keep on doing what he loved, which was trying to...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 24 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1995 visit to Saguaro National Park in Arizona. The mysterious and vaguely humanlike saguaro cactus is one of the iconic symbols of the American West. They...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 29 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. Here you can read the true tale of the author's visit to New Mexico's highpoint, Wheeler Peak. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Wheeler Peak is the 8th-highest...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 7 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Big Hole National Battlefield in Montana. Big Hole is a unit of the National Park System dedicated to preserving the site of an 1877 battle between US...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 20 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1995 visit to Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. After my visit the Monument was greatly expanded and its present name is Craters of the Moon...
Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful is the tale of Accountant Joe, a corporate cubicle rat who was told he had saved too much vacation time and had to use it up. So he did. He hit the road with a map and a camera and a notebook. He returned weeks later after driving 8,000 miles through 23 states. Along the way he found friends, national parks, Native American...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 6 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Missouri Headwaters State Park. The park is in Montana, not Missouri. The visit took place in the same year (1997) as the third Ameritrek, the subject of...
Red Top wanted what every young male in his jungle village wanted: days filled with the excitement of hunting; the friendship of his peers; respect from the elders; a beautiful female to give him eggs and help raise the next generation of intelligent dinosaurs. That's the way it was sixty-five million years ago in the Late Mesozoic. That was the good life. It had always been that way. Why would...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 24 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1996 visit to Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah. The visit took place in the same year as the second Ameritrek, the subject of the main book. In...
Bolon had a familiar problem: he needed money and he needed it fast. As a newly hired management consultant for a company that had just lost a big contract, he was expected to find replacement revenue somewhere, somehow. Unfortunately, the more he studied the problem the more it seemed that a miracle was required. Fortunately Bolon lived in a miraculous age. That age was sixty-five million...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 36 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1996 visit to Mississippi's highpoint, Woodall Mountain. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Woodall Mountain is the 47th...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 13 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1995 visit to Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. The visit took place in the same year as the first Ameritrek, the subject of the main book...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 11 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's visit to the Crazy Horse Memorial and Mount Rushmore, both in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The visit took place in the same year as the first...