Journey to Spirit Valley

About the Book

          A chance meeting with legendary Mountain Man, Jim Bridger at age 14 changed Jeffery’s life.  At age 16, he ran away from home to escape his drunken abusive father and fulfill a dream to become a Mountain Man.  He was ill prepared for this life and would have died if not for Crow Medicine, a Shoshone his age who became his best, and only, friend.

            Young Fergus Kilcooley lost his mother and father in a Comanche a raid on the family homestead on the Brazos in Texas.  His 16-year-old sister, Blair, was taken prisoner prompting the angry Irishman to set out to find her, bring her home, and kill as many Indians as possible in the process. 

            Destiny brought them all together and Sprit valley became the perfect place to cure the hate in Fergus, the shame of Blair, and the loneliness in Jeffery.

About the Author

The oldest of nine children, Bob Ryan was born and raised in Pacific County Washington in 1940 and graduated from South Bend High School.  After four years in the Air force, Bob worked as a deck hand, shake splitter and packer, fern picker, bark peeler, logger, police officer, private detective, and restaurant manager.  For the last twenty-five years he has owned and operated a Café in downtown Raymond while being on the go in the community in both politics and volunteer work.

Bob and his wife Bonnie live in their modest four acre country home in the outskirts of town and both are active in the community.  From opinion columns in the local newspaper to novels, Bob loves to write and writes to relax.  So far he has completed six novels.