The Adventurous Life of Tom Iron Hand Warren: Mountain Man (The Mountain Men Book 5)
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Several months later as Tom helped Linda do the evening’s dishes and the boys were out and about throwing rocks at the bats in the barn, Tom finally found himself and the time to ‘talk’ to Linda. Sitting out on the porch swing in the warmth of an early fall evening, Tom finally found the courage to reach over and hold Linda’s hand! When he did, she did not pull her hand back…
Looking over at him, Linda quietly said, “I am not my sister. But I can love you every bit as much as she did if not more!”
Two months later, Tom and Linda were married and the void left in each of their lives with the earlier passing of their spouses, was truly filled. In so doing, the boys found that each now had a ‘brother’ and each now had a mom and dad…
In the years following, Tom’s shipping business flourished and he graduated from keelboats into his first steamboat, named “The Linda”. Shortly thereafter, business on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers grew so much that Tom purchased his second steamboat or paddle wheeler named “The Fur Trapper”.
Years later when Tom finally retired as a riverboat captain, his two sons White Eagle and David replaced their dad as riverboat captains on “The Linda” and “The Fur Trapper”, and became successful businessmen in and of their own right on the Missouri River. In fact in later years, both White Eagle and David took their respective paddle wheelers up the Missouri River and supplied provisions to Fort Union and brought passengers, furs and buffalo hides back to the markets in St. Louis until the beaver fur market crashed around 1843, when the beaver top hats were replaced with those made from silk and became the ‘rage’.
In his later years, Tom went on to serve as a distinguished Congressman and later as a Senator in and for the Great State of Missouri.
When Tom “Iron Hand” Warren, Mountain Man, passed years later, he was buried on his family farm next to Old Potts, Crooked Hand and Big Foot… Once again, the four trappers and ‘brothers in kind’ were together in death as they had been in life and were now eternally pursuing the “Celestial Beaver and Chasing the Wind”…
A look at Flowers and Tombstones of a Conservation Officer
Ride the Wildlife Outlaw trail once again with Conservation Officer, Terry Grosz, and his real life law enforcement adventures in the often times deadly and savage world of Wildlife law enforcement.
Float the Klamath River at night in a 12-foot boat without using lights of any kind while apprehending groups of Indians using illegal gill nets; face down armed and deadly Indian gill net outlaws when they discover Terry's identity while he was working them undercover, ending with a very surprising twist; stand with Terry when he faced down an armed assailant and only has one pound left on the trigger pull of his .44 Magnum aimed at his dangerous target; ride with Terry when a rifle bullet "claims" one of his nine lives; share a stake out with Terry when he takes on killers from the strategic Air Command, and other compelling takes from the world of Wildlife Enforcement.
This is Wildlife law enforcement as only Terry Grosz can tell it: first person from one who lived the life as a solitary lawman protecting those in the world of wildlife who had little or no voice.
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Whether as a professional in the field of wildlife law enforcement or as a prolific writer, Terry Grosz has distinguished himself with a kind of passion, dedication, integrity and professionalism that often exemplify Humboldt State alumni. The beginning of his 32-year career in wildlife law enforcement came in 1966 with the California Department of Fish and Game in Eureka. After several years and a transfer to Colusa, he was hired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), moving into increasing responsibility for conservation and wildlife law enforcement in successively larger geographic regions, from jurisdiction over the central half of Northern California to finally Assistant Regional Director for Law Enforcement where he supervised FWS’s wildlife law programs covering 750,000 square miles.
When Grosz became the FWS Senior Special Agent, he wrote regulations, policy and procedures, responded to congressional inquiries, provided advice, guidance and expertise. But it wasn’t just a desk job. He also traveled throughout Asia assisting foreign governments in curtailing the smuggling of wildlife and establishing cooperative international law enforcements programs. In all the various positions held by Terry, he supervised agents who protected wildlife from being smuggled or imported illegally into the US, protected eagles from being poisoned or trapped, and more.
In 1998, Grosz retired from the FWS and began a second career as a prolific writer, and has since authored and published fourteen wildlife law enforcement memoirs and seven historical novels. Clearly, he’s got a lot of material to work with. Many of his stories have hilarious moments and hair-raising adventures, some others are sad and tragic, they are all about the men and women who work as wildlife conservation officers trying to preserve our natural heritage for future generations.
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