Buck
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer/Artist |
| Location | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States |
| Introduction | Author of the novels: Sailing to Windward (set in the 19th. Century Philippines); Sunny of the Old Southwest (a 5 vol.period Western series); & The Mountains, the Rivers, and the Plains (a modern romantic adventure that is somewhat a Western as well). Mural painter. |
| Interests | American History esp. colonial and frontier, Philippine History, Medieval history, poetry, historical fiction, Catholic history and apologetics, hiking, camping, shooting, historical movie settings, fantasy & adventure movies and books |
| Favorite movies | Shoes of the Fisherman, An Unfinished Life, Signs, Secondhand Lions, Open Range, South Pacific (TV version 2001 with Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr) |
| Favorite music | George Strait, Floyd Crammer (esp. Last Date), Willy Nelson, Ricky Van Shelton, Patsy Cline, Dean Martin, World War II era big bands |
| Favorite books | collected poetry of Robert Frost and Longfellow and Walt Whitman, Hemingway's collected short stories, Winds of War, War and Remembrance |