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James C. Work (Author)

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May 1999 0786213345 978-0786213344
Pasque lives to avenge the murder of his brothers, when two of the men he suspects show up at his uncle's ranch. But his uncle, the powerful owner of Keystone Ranch, cautions him to be patient. Suddenly, Pasque's life changes entirely. A giant of a man shows up at the Keystone Christmas Party with a peculiar challenge: one man will fire three shots point-blank at him. If he isn't killed, he'll be back next Christmas and the tables will be turned. Itching for a confrontation, Pasque takes him on, beginning a mysterious journey that will end in exactly on year...

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Hometown: Estes Park, Colorado
Present home: Fort Collins, Colorado
Education: BA, MA English literature; PhD, Victorian Poetry.
Career: Professor Emeritus CSU (Western literature, nature writing, creative non-fiction)
Offices: President, Western Literature Association; Exec. Director, Colorado Seminars in Literature; Director, Rocky Mountain MLA.
Awards: CSL Book of the Year (PROSE AND POETRY OF THE AMERICAN WEST); Frank Waters Society Literary Achievement Award ("The Lion at the Well"). Western Literature Association Wylder Award for Distinguished Service.
Activities: canoeing, hiking, camping, fly fishing
Interests: Western American history; archetypal mythology; etymology and rhetoric.

Most satisfactory accomplishments to date:
(1)Discovering how to apply archetypal Arthurian legends to new fiction set in the American West, i.e. bringing Gawain and Lancelot to Wyoming;
(2)Selling a collection of amusing memoirs to an academic press--the Utah memoir "Don't Shoot the Gentile" is scheduled for September 2011 publication.
(3)Being modern-minded enough to have published on Kindle as well as writing articles for an on-line magazine, NewWest.Org

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