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Set in Indian Territory during the Civil War, Watie's Wolves follows the violent adventures of a mixed-breed Cherokee, Jacob Welles, and three boyhood friends who evolve into a special unit of scouts within the famed Cherokee Mounted Rifles led by Stand Watie, the last confederate general to surrender. With an underlying current of tribal factionalism, they participate in and witness the decimation of Indian Territory as the conflagration of w...

Set in Indian Territory during the Civil War, Watie's Wolves follows the violent adventures of a mixed-breed Cherokee, Jacob Welles, and three boyhood friends who evolve into a special unit of scouts within the famed Cherokee Mounted Rifles led by Stand Watie, the last confederate general to surrender. With an underlying current of tribal factionalism, they participate in and witness the decimation of Indian Territory as the conflagration of w...

For more than thirty years, Vernon Schmid's poems of faith have appeared in religious and secular periodicals, as well as in various collections and anthologies.

In this gathering of columns and articles, Vernon Schmid touches, provokes, gouges, tickles, and challenges his readers. A United Methodist pastor, and author of Watie's Wolves (iUniverse, 2007), he has been a horse trainer, ranch hand, wrangler, Rocky Mountain trail guide, radio announcer, country, rock-a-billy, folksinger and educator. His first novel, Seven Days of the Dog, was a Heekin Group Fiction Finalist and his collection of poetry, H...

Rags Bandy, a lanky old arthritic cowboy, returns to the upper Arkansas River Valley of Colorado where he worked as a young cowboy on his late uncle's ranch. Surprisingly the present owners hire him to work on the ranch near the Chalk Cliffs and Mt. Princeton. He strikes up a deep friendship with a young woman (Sarah Caldwell), three other aged cowboys (Tom Longworth, Billy Sidler and Carl Banner), the young cowboys working on the ranch as wel...

This offering from prize winning poet Vernon Schmid brings home the taste and feel of the west, both old and new. It is a unique addition to the poet's other works.

In Cherokee mythology and legend there is no essential difference between human beings and animals.