Some huge Thing . . .

That, as much as anything, and the American myth of Cowboy, may be what the author is looking for as he and photographer David Marx trace the NiiMíiPuu diaspora through the American West along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail.

The story of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the magnificent landscape of the Nez Perce Trail, and the author’s  path through the Twelve Steps of Recovery are twined together in a revelatory tale of modern adventure, recovery and  redemption.

Ride along in the blue pickup from Thunder-Rolling-In-The-Mountains’ birthplace at Joseph Canyon in the Snake River breaks to his grave at the tiny Colville Reservation town of Nespelem, Washington.

The narrator plays fast and loose with time as Side Trips From Cowboy explores wild  country of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming — and human  wilderness as affected by addiction.

If you're in a hurry to read this book, you can find it on amazon.com, along with many others Sandy has written. But, if you can be patient, we would be delighted to send you one ourselves.