The Yellowstone Campaign

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fall 2024 The BookFest Second Place Award for Young Adult Historical Fiction</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>For decades mountain men told tales of the exotic geography surrounding the source of the Yellowstone River and Jubilee Walker to the dismay of his fiancée Nelly Boswell can't resist the opportunity to see it for himself. When Jubil joins an expedition to explore the region he and his companions brave an unforgiving wilderness to find that the truth is even stranger than the legends.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>But a year later when Jubil returns with a survey crew he finds ruthless men exploiting the region for profit. Will Jubil's commitment to preventing the despoilment of Yellowstone's geographical wonders get him killed? </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Based on events of the 1870 Washburn Expedition and the 1871 surveys by Dr. Ferdinand Hayden and Captain John Barlow the second installment of the Jubilee Walker series chronicles events leading up the passage of the bill that designated Yellowstone as America's first national park.</span></p>