The Earthmother Drinks Blood by Richard G. Hubler

The heroic saga of Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce tribe has long been on of the legends of the West.  This novel deals with the Indian and white viewpoints together.  Told as a confession by a renegade white, it intermingles the two traditions.  Historically it is solidly based upon Army and tribal documents that represent the first effort to reconcile the two - as far as this is possible at this late date. 

Wheeler: Trail in the Dust  by Richard G. Hubler

A historical novel based on the Stage Coach days and Samariah Wheeler, born to be the mightiest stage driver of his generation (1835 -1869).  It takes this amiable monster through an unparalleled series of adventures: from Missouri and Indians, to Santa Fe and Mexico, to San Diego and San Francisco, to vigilantes and politics, to exile in the Sandwich Islands, to California again and the Isthmus of Panama, to New York and Washington to the Civil War to Reconstruction -- to the stagecoaching and wagonning , Pony Express, buffalo-hunting, love-making, gouging, fighting, days of the West before the trains came through. 

Richard G. Hubler is a well-known author of 26 published books.  He was also a teacher for years associated with Ventura College, University of California at Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, and San Fernando Valley State College.  He lived for many years in Ojai, California.