Her search for identity goes back to the Idaho reservation where she was raised. Six short stories focus on Native and non-Native American women living and surviving outside of mainstream society. A journey across Oregon leads to adventure. An old haunted house in Oregon begins to speak to its occupants. A firebrand IWW organizer comes to Butte, Montana after a catastrophic explosion in the Spectator mine, 1917.
Life changes for the Indian tribes and white trappers in the old West.
Construction of a federal prison impinges on individuals in the Oregon desert. The aggressive scion of an Oregon lumber empire struggles against the conformity of townspeople. Quiet life in a small Alaskan fishing village is disturbed by the arrival of a movie production crew just after the turn of the millennium. This 'early man' narrative, the first of a series, is linked to the Kennewick Man, the 9,300 - 9,700 year old skeleton found in the Columbia River in 1996. This medley of stories reveals the private lives of residents of a small seaside Oregon village.