{"title":"Dragon Tooth Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll available volumes of \u003cstrong\u003eDragon Tooth Gold\u003c\/strong\u003e at Manga Deal, in reading order. New volumes are added automatically.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9781733665018","title":"Dragon Tooth Gold: Volume 3 - Pay Dirt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: Prologue - The four Callahan's reach the west coast and prepare to go their separate ways. The nation is on the brink of the Civil War. The year is 1860. Yuma Crossing - Eli returns to Arizona Territories, settles on the red mountain, and takes an Indian woman, Abby, for his wife. Young Doctor Suzette - Suzette enters the University of the Pacific Medical College and trains under a famous surgeon. Sierra Nevada Mother Lode - Roland and Lia travel the Mother Lode looking for John Gould. The Storm's Golden Gift - A one-thousand-year storm topples a tree on the top of Red Mountain and reveals the golden secret of the mountain. Beale's Crossing - Two Indian scouts guide Roland and Lia on a quest to find the red mountain. Doctor Callahan - Suzette completes her medical studies in record time. Red Mountain Mining - Eli and Roland continue to develop the gold deposit. Lia gives birth to her first, Baby Anna. New Arrivals -- Pauline Weaver discovers gold. Weaver's strike brings the Gold Rush. All that Glitters - The first gold heist, the thieves only get away with a decoy Mr. Sue made from discarded brass. Perry's Payback - Suzette and Bridgette experience rape, perpetrated by Major Jenkins and the banker from San Francisco. Roland sets out to destroy the banker. The Ultimate Revenge - Revenge is delivered cruelly to Major Jenkins by the hand of Santiago, Reunion and Departure - Denise returns to Red Mountain, sick with cancer. Suzette can only make her comfortable till her death. Eliza's Secret Room - Deep within the mountain, a passageway to a cavern is discovered. The Second Paradigm - Mr. Sue's nephew organizes the next gold heist. Almost kills Mr. Sue during the robbery. The Blessed and the Dammned - Connor hunts and sinks an armored Confederate warship. Lighthouse Quest - Eliza wins a bet on a shooting contest. Moses has to take her to see a lighthouse. The Tail of the Dragon - Fame, and destiny arrive at the Red Mountain Mine in the form of a fossilized dinosaur with a gold tooth in the heart of the gold deposit Resurrection - Connor, and Santiago set out to retrieve the guns from the blessed. Usenbestia - Eliza, and Maria name the dinosaur. God's Beast in literal Spanish and Apache. Jacques - on the brink of insanity from the killings in the war, General Hancock sends Jacques to Texas to fight Confederate sympathizers among the Indian Nations The Roar of the Dragon - The mine plan is in place to recover the remainder of the gold. Filmore -- Bridgette's abuser settles in Wickenburg, terminal with syphilis. Chinatown - Mr. Sue arrives in San Francisco to find his nephew, the di low of the street gangs. He works with the community to eliminate the menace of the nephew and his boss. Going Home - Moses takes Suzette and Bridgette to Independence. Connor takes Ragini to India and on to Ireland. Epilogue - The Callahans were little more than teenagers when they settled at Red Mountain. They leave hardened young adults ready to face the challenge of reconstruction after the Civil War. Publisher Marketing : Gold is where you find it; the time-honored mantra of the weekend prospector to the seasoned professional; is at best only a half-truth. Gold is where the planet, through its myriad, inanimate geological processes, choose to leave it. The Dragon Tooth Gold Mine was no exception to the science underlying the geological process of gold deposition, however, only difficult to find microscopic gold on the surface masked the deposit from the greedy eyes of the early prospectors. But it's not only \"The Luck of the Irish\" that brings the young Callahans to one of the richest gold mines in the Arizona Territories. Through the patience and perseverance of an Indian woman that Eli Callahan takes for his wife, the secrets of the red mountain are unveiled layer by layer. From gold pan to arrastra and sluice; to underground mining, stamp mills, and amalgam tables, the wealth of the Dragon Tooth Mine fuels the Federal money presses of the Civil War. There is more in the mine than gold; the remains of dinosaurs that roamed the earth sixty-five million years ago also await for discovery. More than fossilized ones, the unique discovery fans the fires of news craven printing presses worldwide. Destin also finds the Callahans. Suzette completes her medical degree; Jacques joins the US Army as a scout; Roland becomes the family's financial manager, and Eli stays on the red mountain and mines the gold. More adventure, more intrigue, the Dragon Tooth Gold Series continues moving through and beyond the Civil War years. Contributor Bio: Tahtim, Ann Ayliffe Tahtim Ayliffe graduated Suma cum Laude from the University of New Mexico, 1996 with a degree in Creative Writing and a minor in geology. She won the distinguished status with her senior project short story, Life Prints. The original copy of Life Prints resides on the selves of the University of New Mexico's honors section and will be referenced in perpetuity as a model of excellent storytelling. Ms. Ayliffe has published a short literary piece in Aquarian Times, Time is Like a Receipt. She also holds an A.A. in Geology from San Juan College, in Farmington, NM and is currently the Owner\/CFO of the Spring Creek Company and Tulsa Granite, LLC in Wilburton, OK. Contributor Bio: Terry, McGrew Terry McGrew is retired from more than thirty years of government service. She worked for the State of California, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Defense. For the Department of the Interior, she wrote contracts. For the Federal Government, she worked in the airplane maintenance group at McClelland Field in Sacramento and wrote numerous procedural documents and training manuals. Additionally, she created and proofread the day-to-day reports and correspondence to base command. Many upwardly mobile young officers discovered her proof-perfect editing and were spared the embarrassment of sending a document forward to a commanding officer with a misspelled word or a missing comma. Terry had a long and rewarding career and stepped into retirement as she slipped the lock closed on the main gate in the closing ceremony of McClelland field. Retired up the road in Orangevale, Terry brings a life's work of talent into the volumes of Dragon Tooth Gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 370 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2020-01-04\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Senate Metallurgical, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202332770530,"sku":"9781733665018","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/0005\/1501\/files\/9781733665018.jpg?v=1765447909"},{"product_id":"9781733665032","title":"Dragon Tooth Gold: Volume 2 - Pioneers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the nation on the brink of Civil War, Eli and the twins join the Army Supply Service. Disaster strikes in the form of a tornado that kills their parents and severely injures their younger sister. The boys take a contract to deliver supplies to the garrison at Santa Fe as Suzette runs away and waits for her brothers on the trail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: Prologue - Summarizes Volume 1 and sets the stage for travel on the Santa Fe Trail. Olathe - The rebelous Suzette joins up with her older brothers to head west. First Troubles - Eli and his brothers wait to join up with a larger wagon train only to find that the wagon master is a drunkard. The Narrows - A nine mile stretch of trail that is impossible to cross when wet. Eli makes it across but the rest of the train mires and stops. The drunkard finds his last bottle, corn whiskey tainted with wood alcohol. Eli assumes command of the wagon train. On watch in the dark, Suzette wounds a Mexican sneaking into the camp. The Mexican wants his revenge. A New Paradigm - Suzette unpacks a crate of Henry Rifles destine for a hardware store in Santa Fe. Their firepower is increased more than tenfold. Delay and Burial - A large band of renegades is operating on the trail. They encounter the sight of a massacare and stop to bury the dead. Suzette finds a young Mexican girl hiding in the rushes with a broken leg. Burlingame - The wagon train stops for repairs and reshoeing of the mules. The Callahan's stay on guard for the Mexican renegade. They learn he is Chico Diablo, an infamous outlaw and murderer. Twenty Mile Days - The green drivers and swampers turn into experienced hands. Pushing ever west, Eli befriends a Chinese cook, Mr. Sue who becomes a friend for life. Council Grove - The showdown with Chico de Diablo. Suzette kills the outlaw in a gunfight inside a church but is wounded. He fame as a gunslinger and one tough woman grows as she stitches up a wound in her side. Comanche Contact - The Indians encounter the firepower of the Henry Rifle. Defense on the trail changes forever. Fort Larned - Suzette is given a new weapon for self defense. A burette for her hair, armed with a spike. Endless Prairie - A week more of travel, Roland and Suzette blunder into Bent's Fort in the midst of a pounding rainstorm. Bent's blacksmith, a boxer, is a stalker and a rapist. He focuses on Suzette. Fort Wise - Fights are scheduled. Roland, an accomplished bare knuckels boxer himself, signs the roster for the sixt bout. The Fight - A suprising ending, Suzette and the orphaned Mexican girl win a small fortune from Bent and his banker. Abduction - Enraged by his losses, Bent's banker and his sidekick abduct Suzette and hold her for ransom. Their last mistake. Iron Spring - First encounter with hostile Apache. Again Henry Rifles and smart tactics make the day. Ratón - Steep grades and accidents were their constant companion crossing the spine of the Colorado Rockies. Fort Union - A shooting contest, the Doctors Way and a day in court. Santa Fe - More freight and a dangerous mission to deliver to fort Moore in Los Angeles. Suzette returns the Mexican girl to her grandparents. El Camino Real - On the spur of the moment, Roland marries a beautiful Mexican woman widowed by the Apache. Apache Pass - Tactics and superior fire power again win the day. Magnas Coloradas backs the Apache down and the wagon train threads it way through the pass without incident. Rio de San Pedro - Eli turns them north to meet the Gila River. They recover a map from a Peralta family envoy. An ex marks a mountain in the Arizona Territories. Colorodo Crossing - Eli finds the ferry across the mighty Colorado operated by illegal slaves. The Mojave - Hot and deadly, even in the fall, the traverse is wracked with danger End of the Line - The grandmother, Denise, is waiting for them in Los Angeles San Pedro - Eli helps free the town from a crooked sheriff and his longshormen thugs. Epilogue - Review Quotes : Dr. Kay Dean-Lifetime educator. Kent McGrew is a brilliant metallurgist, geologist, and a much sought-after consultant for the mining industry. I would expect nothing less from this intellectual, voluble engineer than the story I read in Volume I of his Dragon Tooth Gold series. Kudos to you, Kent, on an excellent book! Publisher Marketing : Dragon Tooth Gold - Volume 2 - Pioneers finds the second generation young adult Callahans mid summer, 1860. The nation is on the brink of Civil War. Eli, the oldest, and the twins join the Army Supply Service under the pressure of the their mother Anna and their grandmother Denise. Still serving their counry but safe from the front lines if war should break out, they work for the Quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth on short hauls to supply bases on the Santa Fe Trail. Disaster strikes in the form of a tornado that kills their parents and severely injures their younger sister, Suzette. After the burial of their mother and the abandonment of the search for their father, the boys take a contract to deliver a heavy load of supplys to the garrison at Santa Fe. They head to Fort Leavenworth to load up and head west. Denise is going to take Suzette by ship to meet up with the boys in Los Angeles, however, Suzette has plans of her own. She runs away and waits for her brothers on the trail. Contributor Bio: Ayliffe, Tahtim Ann Volume 1 of Dragon Tooth Gold begins the story of Aaden Callahan and Anna Mercier; two landed immigrants. They met while teaching at Columbia University in New York City. The year is 1841. The young Dr. Callahan woos and wins the heart of the smart and beautiful Anna. Their courtship isn't easy. Anna's abusive and dominating father doesn't approve and works through his connections as an investment banker to have Aaden fired from the University. Their relationship turns deadly when Anna's father challenges Aaden to a duel to settle the matter with deadly force. Aaden embarrasses Anna's father beyond repair in front of thousands of spectators in Faculty Park, across the street from the front gate of the University. Losing the duel and missing an earlobe, the banker's world crumbles around him. He takes his life in a drunken stupor when he finds his accounts frozen and receives divorce papers from his wife's lawyers. Aaden and Anna are spirited away from New York on his younger brother's whiskey schooner Blessed by the Wind. The Blessed is no ordinary schooner. Armed and deadly they fight off pirates in Pamlico Sound and take aboard a blacksmith and his apprentice slave who is his adopted son. They encounter a clairvoyant in Jamaica encounter more troubles having to fight an Argentine frigate on their way to New Orleans. Anna's mother settles in St. Louis and establishes The Black Freedom League. Aaden though is eager to homestead further west. He takes his wife and the servant family from St. Louis to Independence, Missouri, where there is land to homestead and a future to carve out of the wilderness. There, he establishes an empire partnering with blacks he buys and frees to take up homesteads around his holdings. Aaden spends his years building his lumber and brewery business. Anna founds a school in Independence for children of all colors and creeds. The abolitionist culture they create causes many problems the pro-slavery dominated state resulting in conflicts with slavers and even an assassination attempt. Aaden and Anna raise four children. Eli, the first, and twin boys, Jacques and Roland, and then finally a girl, Suzette. As the nation looms toward civil war, Anna yields to pressure from her mother and allows her boys to join the Army Supply Service. The post commander at Fort Leavenworth promises to keep the boys close to home. After a tornado sweeps through the lumber mill and brewery, however, the boys take a contract to join a wagon train all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. 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The boys join the Army Supply Service and head for the California coast, delivering arms and supplies to outposts on the Santa Fe trail. Suzette runs away from her grandmother and joins brothers on the trail west.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: Prologue - Summarizes Volume 1 and sets the stage for travel on the Santa Fe Trail. Olathe - The rebelous Suzette joins up with her older brothers to head west. First Troubles - Eli and his brothers wait to join up with a larger wagon train only to find that the wagon master is a drunkard. The Narrows - A nine mile stretch of trail that is impossible to cross when wet. Eli makes it across but the rest of the train mires and stops. The drunkard finds his last bottle, corn whiskey tainted with wood alcohol. Eli assumes command of the wagon train. On watch in the dark, Suzette wounds a Mexican sneaking into the camp. The Mexican wants his revenge. A New Paradigm - Suzette unpacks a crate of Henry Rifles destine for a hardware store in Santa Fe. Their firepower is increased more than tenfold. Delay and Burial - A large band of renegades is operating on the trail. They encounter the sight of a massacare and stop to bury the dead. Suzette finds a young Mexican girl hiding in the rushes with a broken leg. Burlingame - The wagon train stops for repairs and reshoeing of the mules. The Callahan's stay on guard for the Mexican renegade. They learn he is Chico Diablo, an infamous outlaw and murderer. Twenty Mile Days - The green drivers and swampers turn into experienced hands. Pushing ever west, Eli befriends a Chinese cook, Mr. Sue who becomes a friend for life. Council Grove - The showdown with Chico de Diablo. Suzette kills the outlaw in a gunfight inside a church but is wounded. He fame as a gunslinger and one tough woman grows as she stitches up a wound in her side. Comanche Contact - The Indians encounter the firepower of the Henry Rifle. Defense on the trail changes forever. Fort Larned - Suzette is given a new weapon for self defense. A burette for her hair, armed with a spike. Endless Prairie - A week more of travel, Roland and Suzette blunder into Bent's Fort in the midst of a pounding rainstorm. Bent's blacksmith, a boxer, is a stalker and a rapist. He focuses on Suzette. Fort Wise - Fights are scheduled. Roland, an accomplished bare knuckels boxer himself, signs the roster for the sixt bout. The Fight - A suprising ending, Suzette and the orphaned Mexican girl win a small fortune from Bent and his banker. Abduction - Enraged by his losses, Bent's banker and his sidekick abduct Suzette and hold her for ransom. Their last mistake. Iron Spring - First encounter with hostile Apache. Again Henry Rifles and smart tactics make the day. Ratón - Steep grades and accidents were their constant companion crossing the spine of the Colorado Rockies. Fort Union - A shooting contest, the Doctors Way and a day in court. Santa Fe - More freight and a dangerous mission to deliver to fort Moore in Los Angeles. Suzette returns the Mexican girl to her grandparents. El Camino Real - On the spur of the moment, Roland marries a beautiful Mexican woman widowed by the Apache. Apache Pass - Tactics and superior fire power again win the day. Magnas Coloradas backs the Apache down and the wagon train threads it way through the pass without incident. Rio de San Pedro - Eli turns them north to meet the Gila River. They recover a map from a Peralta family envoy. An ex marks a mountain in the Arizona Territories. Colorodo Crossing - Eli finds the ferry across the mighty Colorado operated by illegal slaves. The Mojave - Hot and deadly, even in the fall, the traverse is wracked with danger End of the Line - The grandmother, Denise, is waiting for them in Los Angeles San Pedro - Eli helps free the town from a crooked sheriff and his longshormen thugs. Epilogue - Review Quotes : Dr. Kay Dean-Lifetime educator. Kent McGrew is a brilliant metallurgist, geologist, and a much sought-after consultant for the mining industry. I would expect nothing less from this intellectual, voluble engineer than the story I read in Volume I of his Dragon Tooth Gold series. Kudos to you, Kent, on an excellent book! Publisher Marketing : Dragon Tooth Gold - Volume 2 - Pioneers finds the second generation young adult Callahans mid summer, 1860. The nation is on the brink of Civil War. Eli, the oldest, and the twins join the Army Supply Service under the pressure of the their mother Anna and their grandmother Denise. Still serving their counry but safe from the front lines if war should break out, they work for the Quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth on short hauls to supply bases on the Santa Fe Trail. Disaster strikes in the form of a tornado that kills their parents and severely injures their younger sister, Suzette. After the burial of their mother and the abandonment of the search for their father, the boys take a contract to deliver a heavy load of supplys to the garrison at Santa Fe. They head to Fort Leavenworth to load up and head west. Denise is going to take Suzette by ship to meet up with the boys in Los Angeles, however, Suzette has plans of her own. She runs away and waits for her brothers on the trail. Contributor Bio: McGrew, Kent Joseph Kent McGrew has taken a refreshing break from years of technical writing to bring his readers Dragon Tooth Gold; an epic historical fiction of gold mining in the American West. Born during WWII, McGrew was raised by immigrant grandparents in the Sacramento Valley. He was drawn into mining partnerships with his father at age fourteen where he discovered the science that should be the bulwark of every effort. After three mining venture failures, he attended the Montana School of Mines for degrees in Mineral Dressing Engineering, an odd corner of extractive metallurgy recovering minerals and metals from ores. Five years in college for a B.S., three years in the US Army, and a year with a Teaching Fellowship for his M.S. Degree, were beneficial interruptions to a career that has spanned sixty years. Project work took him to every continent except Antarctica, where he literally missed the plane tour from New Zealand. Under the pen name of Auntie GEM (Government, Education \u0026amp; Mining), he wrote weekly articles about the history and current events of gold mining in the Black Hills. Three years of anti-mining initiatives during the South Dakota general elections kept him busy writing and speaking on tours around the state. His work appeared weekly in the Lead Daily Call, and spread to every weekly newspaper in the Dakotas. Over the years, McGrew has unmasked a wide variety of mining scams. His Five Axioms of Mining Scams, published in 1994, are still widely quoted and woven into the fabric of Dragon Tooth Gold. The mining vagabond settled in Congress, Arizona twenty-eight years ago when he met Sally - a woman he couldn't pass up - his gold fever cured forever with this amazing find. 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Aaden and Anna raise four children and they leave on the Santa Fe Trail on the eve of the Civil War. The Dragon Tooth mine awaits discovery in the New Mexico Territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: CONTENTS Prologue - Lays the groundwork and the saga begins. First Nanosecond and Beyond - Genesis of the known universe. Proterozoic Pandemonium - Geological History and the birth of the Dragon Tooth Gold Mine. 190 Million Years Ago - Dinosaurs contribute skeletons to the Dragon Tooth Gold Deposit. The Extinction - The Last dinosaur to join the gold deposit. The First Find - First Immigrants cross the land bridge 10,000 years ago and settle on the gold mine but leave a curse behind that survives through the lore of the ages. Immigrants - Begins the story in 1843 with Aaden Callahan and Anna Mercier meeting at Columbia University and falling in love. The Departure - Aaden runs afoul of Anna's father and they leave New York on his brother's Whiskey Schooner, Blessed by the Wind. They take the Mercier servant family with them to include the teenage daughter, Lily. Pamlico Sound - The Blessed encounters slavers and pirates. Ports of Call - Hurricane while at anchor in Charleston Harbor. Trial by Storm - Blown of course for three days by a hurricane at sea. Revelations and Repairs - The women encounter a clairvoyant on the beach in Nassau. Jamaica - Whiskey trade and would be muggers killed and maimed. Cuba - Attempted rape of Anna's mother and sea battle with an Argentine frigate. New Orleans - Assult charges, crooked city judge and a clever jailbreak. Vicksburg -Travel by steam packet up the Mississippi. Saint Louis - Steamboat explosion and fire sweeps the city. Independence - Aaden homesteads, buys and frees slaves to work as partners in the lumber and brewery business. The First Born - The start of the Callahan family, the second generation of Callahans that come to life in Volume 2 of Dragon Tooth Gold The Assassin - Anna and her mother ruin a newspaperman in Jefferson City. The angry man hires a slave catcher to assassinate Anna. Marriage and Celebration - Anna's mother marries the blacksmith from Bath, NC. Pro-slave militants attempt to disrupt the wedding and are killed, their riverboat burned at the landing in Independence. The Professor - An associate from New York arrives and takes the Presidency of Anna's school. The Christmas Horse - Anna goes into labor while reading a story that makes her famous. Gives birth to twin boys. Suzette - Finally, the fourth child is a girl. Farewell Brothers - Nineteen years pass and comes the eve of the Civil War. Runaway - Suzette defies her grandmother and joins her brothers on the Santa Fe Trail. Epilogue - Sets the stage for Volume 2, Pioneers Publisher Marketing : Volume 1 of Dragon Tooth Gold begins the story of Aaden Callahan and Anna Mercier; two landed immigrants. They met while teaching at Columbia University in New York City. The year is 1841. The young Dr. Callahan woos and wins the heart of the smart and beautiful Anna. Their courtship isn't easy. Anna's abusive and dominating father doesn't approve and works through his connections as an investment banker to have Aaden fired from the University. Their relationship turns deadly when Anna's father challenges Aaden to a duel to settle the matter with deadly force. Aaden embarrasses Anna's father beyond repair in front of thousands of spectators in Faculty Park, across the street from the front gate of the University. Losing the duel and missing an earlobe, the banker's world crumbles around him. He takes his life in a drunken stupor when he finds his accounts frozen and receives divorce papers from his wife's lawyers. Aaden and Anna are spirited away from New York on his younger brother's whiskey schooner Blessed by the Wind . The Blessed is no ordinary schooner. Armed and deadly they fight off pirates in Pamlico Sound and take aboard a blacksmith and his apprentice slave who is his adopted son. They encounter a clairvoyant in Jamaica encounter more troubles having to fight an Argentine frigate on their way to New Orleans. Anna's mother settles in St. Louis and establishes The Black Freedom League. Aaden though is eager to homestead further west. He takes his wife and the servant family from St. Louis to Independence, Missouri, where there is land to homestead and a future to carve out of the wilderness. There, he establishes an empire partnering with blacks he buys and frees to take up homesteads around his holdings. Aaden spends his years building his lumber and brewery business. Anna founds a school in Independence for children of all colors and creeds. The abolitionist culture they create causes many problems the pro-slavery dominated state resulting in conflicts with slavers and even an assassination attempt. Aaden and Anna raise four children. Eli, the first, and twin boys, Jacques and Roland, and then finally a girl, Suzette. As the nation looms toward civil war, Anna yields to pressure from her mother and allows her boys to join the Army Supply Service. The post commander at Fort Leavenworth promises to keep the boys close to home. After a tornado sweeps through the lumber mill and brewery, however, the boys take a contract to join a wagon train all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Suzette defies her grandmother who wants to take her on a clipper ship around the horn to Los Angeles and runs away to join her brothers on the trail west. Contributor Bio: McGrew, Kent J Kent McGrew, born at the end of WWII and raised by immigrant grandparents in the Sacramento Valley, began his mining career by accident at the age of fourteen. His father, the mechanical genius, was drawn into mining partnerships, building small processing plants for a share of the action. Having lost their ass three times by the time he was nineteen, he finally struck it rich enough to land at Montana School of Mines where he miraculously earned a Master's Degree in Mineral Dressing Engineering despite two years of hard living in Butte, Montana, working underground in the copper mines, and a three-year interlude in the US Army. To the credit of his first wife, Sandy Louch - the girl down the street, he aced the last three years of his education. All in all, he remains working at his profession for sixty years going to every continent on the planet except Antarctica, where he literally missed the boat due to a crashed tour plane the week before he arrived in New Zealand. From the tops of the Andes to the jungle and savannas of Africa to being part of the first delegation into China, Mr. McGrew has spent his days in the mastery of the science of his profession, solving mining and environmental problems. When asked where he is from - North America, when asked where he works - Everywhere. Simple answers to complex questions. Bogged down in technical papers, in the late '80s he created the pen name \"Auntie GEM\" (GEM is the acronym for Government, Education, and Mining - a subcommittee of the Society of Mining Engineers). His articles were carried by the Lead Daily Call and mining advocates syndicated the popular articles to all the weekly newspapers across North and South Dakota. Auntie educated readers in a humorous way about various aspects of the mining process blending in the rich the history of the area, helping to ease the tension of anti-mining initiatives in South Dakota at that time. Although \"Auntie\" probably wouldn't have approved, he also published in 1994 his Five Axioms of Mining Scams, several of which appear in Dragon Tooth Gold along with some new scams his research has uncovered along the way. Mining in South Dakota abruptly ended for him upon learning that Aspen trees contributed to his late, but unlucky find, of asthma. But at least it wasn't tuberculosis. Still, a friend suggested Arizona for its good air, and 30 years later he is still living under, above and around the mining district of Congress, Arizona with his beautiful wife, Sally. And he continues to mine, mentor and teach, a man in love with his profession. He was actively involved in the construction of Congress Elementary in 2000 and still works at the administration of the school district, bringing quality education to the children of rural Arizona. Besides the refreshing break from fifty years of technical writing to bring his readers Dragon Tooth Gold, he now trolls the library for each nugget of gold mining fact as he continues his quest to bring readers with him to his beloved American West. Contributor Bio: Tahtim, Ann Ayliffe Tahtim Ann Ayliffe is an educated writer having graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in Creative Writing. She works as owner\/operator of the Spring Creek Company and Tulsa Granite in Wilburton, OK. 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