About the author
Arthur Rathburn is a former college professor, private consultant, and a retire army sergeant. He holds a BA in Social Science, a MS in combined studies of Geography, Anthropology, and History, and a PhD in Geography. He has been actively engaged in writing since his retirement from the US Army in 2001. RETURN TO SIERRA VALLEY is his eighth book. It is his first western historic novel. His prior work was concentrating on biographies and historic novels of the WWII era. Dr. Rathburn was born and raised in the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains. He has lived in several location in Western America, but now resides with his wife, Ursula, in South Central Wisconsin.