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It is 1846, the year of the Mexican war. Ray Dobbs, a retired trapper mountain man is guiding the Earl of Drumcliffe and his entourage on a frontier hunting expedition at a large basin deep in the Rocky Mountains known as Bayou Salade, present day South Park, Colorado. The resident Ute nation is alarmed at the efficiency of the Earl's killing and takes steps to foil the hunt. The Earl rejects Ute concerns. Ray summons Army troops to forestall open conflict. The Earl's son Percival and Ouray, the young Ute guide, conspire to blunt the Earl's militancy. Percival, his manservant Young Tom and Dusty, an abused runaway and aspiring mountain man, vie for the heart of a beautiful Mexican girl. This competition is to be settled with civility in a bare knuckle boxing match. The match outcome is unexpected. This story is told by Percival, Young Tom, Dusty and Ouray, as well as Ray's collected orphans; Moe, an autistic savant, Bluebird, a small Cheyenne girl and Little Weasel, a white boy captured in infancy and raised by Cheyenne.

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Ralph Neighbor, like many Kansas natives, was lured from the summer heat of the plains to cool colorful Colorado. Lots of times. Many family vacations were spent or travelled through Colorado. Other exposures to Colorado include month long summer camp sessions in Estes Park from age eight to fifteen, visits to family friends in Colorado Springs, a honey moon at the BroAdmoor, numerous ski trips to a variety of destinations, dude ranch vacations, narrow gauge railroad excursions, fly fishing trips all have lured returns. All of the various geologic features and ecosystems of Colorado have been personally experienced at one time or another. Ralph attended college at Kansas State University and medical school at Kansas University. He further trained in obstetrics and gynecology at the hospital where he was born. His practice spanned forty years, began in Kansas, and ended in Washington State where he currently lives with his life-long partner Pam. Ralph and Pam have four children and seven grandchildren. Other published works include a series of mystery adventures based on the life of Ralph McConnell, Ralph's uncle, who died at age ten in 1937. In addition to writing Ralph has passion for history, music, fly fishing and the West. Colorado remains his first love in the West.

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