Togwotee Passage

About Togwotee Passage

Literary Eco-fiction, Adventure, Nature, Native American

An impassioned, thought kindling journey on a wilder side of life, from youth to passing, with a breadth of charged life experiences.

In 1940s Wyoming, a seven-year-old under the yoke of a dysfunctional family is beginning his life journey with stumbling steps. When an intervention whisks him reluctantly away, he faces new challenges in a sweeping wilderness setting, where a sustaining influence is the friendship of a Shoshone youth with differing cultural values. On into the treacherous terrain of life's chaotic landscape, with his mettle tested time and again he is increasingly rankled with civilization's Janus-faced ways and ill-conceived progress. Mitigating his irritation, is a distracting fascination with the wonderment and paradoxes of the natural world. That is, until he considers where humankind's varying proclivities stem from.

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Togwotee (toe'-ga-tee) is the name of a challenging mountain pass in the Absaroka Mountains of northwest Wyoming. As used in the title of this fictive tale, it's an apt metaphor for the protagonist's life path.

The story is character driven, contains Native American mythology, has an entwined thread of natural world interconnectedness, and is complemented with expressive illustrations.

Dedication

Acknowledgments

1. Early Trials

2. Conflicting Influences

3. Rodeo Misadventure

4. Lake Spirits

5. Storm Clouds

6. Lightning Strike

7. Turbulent Winds

8. Homecoming

9. Mojave Interlude

10. Boston Wildlife

11. Home On The Range

12. Business As Usual

13. The Visit

14. The Owl and the Eagle

15. Silver Linings

16. Milky Way Trail

 Postamble

 Illustration Index

 Characters

 Author Bio