Michael Lance Ritter has an M. A. in history with further American West study at the University of California as a Ph.D Fellow. He has lived on the Great Plains, along the Rocky Mountain Front, in the snowy Sierra Nevada and the California gold country. Michael has been an instructor, entrepreneur and investor, and now lives in Santa Rosa, CA. Member: Western Writers of America, Western History Association, Robinson Jeffers Association, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, and the Cherokee Nation.