New Introduction, research and editing, annotations, and cover by Linda Pendleton. More than one hundred years ago, popular author, Stewart Edward White put his pen to paper and wrote Arizona Nights, one of his many books about the outdoors and the challenges of pioneer life in the Southwest during the 19th century. As always he does not conceal the dangers and discomforts of gold mining, cattlemen, ranch life, and adventurers. White uniquely weaves his story of Arizona Nights around what one might consider “campfire stories,” and as always you will find his visual trademark descriptions of nature, the desert, the prairie, and the fauna and flora in his writing. Excerpt: "Holy smoke!" says I, gettin' my breath. "If you mean that, Dutchy, you lend me another gun and give me a drink." He done so, and I went back home to where the whole camp of Cyanide was waitin'. I got up and made them a speech and told them I'd sell them hosses all right, and to come back. Then I got an Injin boy to help, and we rustled over the remuda and held them in a blind canyon. Then I called up these miners one at a time, and made bargains with them. Roar! Well, you could hear them at Denver, they tell me, and the weather reports said, "Thunder in the mountains." But it was cash on delivery, and they all paid up. They had seen that white quartz with the gold stickin' into it, and that's the same as a dose of loco to miner gents. In Linda Pendleton’s new Introduction we learn who Stewart Edward White was and the legacy he left of his many fiction and nonfiction books following his death in 1946. An explorer, conservationist, naturalist, and big game hunter, his love for nature, conservation, and adventure were to become very much a part of his literary works over his long literary career. Several of his nonfiction works are classics in the exploration of the paranormal and communication from the spirit world. He wrote with passion, whether about the adventures beyond the veil or about adventures in nature and the earthly frontier. Linda Pendleton is author of nonfiction and fiction books, comics, and ecourses. She is coauthor of the popular nonfiction book, To Dance With Angels written with her husband, Don Pendleton. Don and Linda also wrote the nonfiction, Whispers From the Soul, and the crime novel, Roulette. Linda's fiction includes Shattered Lens: Catherine Winter, Private Eye, and The Dawning. Linda is a member of the Authors Guild Inc. and Authors Foundation.
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