JOHNNY SUNDSTROM has lived most of his life in the American West, and has crossed the continent overland many times. He is a part-owner and manager of a livestock and forestland operation in western Oregon. As founder and Director of the Siuslaw Institute, he provides natural resources consulting and administers watershed restoration projects. He also serves as head track and field coach at the local high school. For more than 40 years he has spent part of every summer visiting his relations in Wyoming. He graduated from Williams College with a degree in English Literature, has written extensively over the years, and previously published the novel Dawn’s Early Light.