TREASURE RIVER I started writing Treasure River in 1998 while taking care of Aunt Irma and my Mother. After they were "gone on" I continued to write, and part of the reason for my 14-day, 400-mile trip down Red River trip to Fulton, Arkansas was to study the Geography of Red River and interview people so I could record the folklore of Red River.
Red River is a historical, folkloric, novel that records the story of a civilization which we have all but forgotten; the era of the, fur trapping, whisky brewing, treasure-seeking river people; found in the wild and wooly Red River Valley, during the early nineteenth century.
I started writing my memoirs in 1986 at a time when I was spending a couple of days a week on Red River gathering material to build my dogwood hoop furniture. After many rewrites and name changes it was published in 2008 titled River of Dreams. Growing up in Mulberry Bottom on Red River during hard times was fun, and is fun to read about. The comment I get the most is "I laughed out loud so often reading River of Dreams."
My comments on the back: Time was all a country boy had … a river all he needed. A summer-day swim, tending a fishing pole or floating lazily downstream in a skiff washed away a boy’s day, like rain drops on newly fallen snow. “Out behind the barn” and “barefoot in the summertime” were terms boys understood.