INFAMOUS - Brakken, James A.

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Résumé :
About the Author James Brakken writes novels and short stories from his Bayfield County home in Northwest Wisconsin. His award-winning, 2012 historical fiction novel, The Treasure of Namakagon, led to his Chief Namakagon trilogy, revealing the life and true identity of Chief Namakagon while exploring lumberjack life in 1880s Wisconsin. Brakken confirmed the existence of Namakagon's lost silver mine when he re-published the 1892 memoir of Benjamin Armstrong, friend of both Chief Buffalo and Namakagon. Between novels, Brakken writes short stories based on northwest Wisconsin's good old days. The Moose & Wilbur P. Dilby and Billyboy, the Corner Bar Bear each contain 37 captivating up north short stories. Recognized as a leader in lake protection, Brakken wrote Saving our Lakes & Streams, a handbook of practical things we can do now to protect our surface waters for tomorrow. DARK, A Campfire Companion is an illustrated collection of 56 of the author's scary short stories and delightfully frightening poems. It's great reading for dark and stormy nights. Today, few know of the 1939 plight of Ray Olson, chased through the Chequamegon Forest by throngs of bloodthirsty men hoping to collect a $1,000 dead-or-alive reward. Alias Ray Olson reveals facts never before made public about this almost forgotten, appalling affair. Brakken's 10th title, Infamous, is another fact-based, true-crime, novel. But this Great Depression Era woodsman deserved to be hunted by the FBI for crimes committed in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. Brakken won 2nd place out of 10,000 worldwide entries in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards for Treasure. He also received the 2013, 2014, and 2016 Lake Superior Writers Award and the coveted Wisconsin Writers Association Jade Ring. Of Brakken's writing, Publisher's Weekly Magazine and Amazon Books said, Difficult to put down. ... A great read, and the flow of words is like an old fashioned song. (See more reviews on preceding pages.) Most of the author's books are illustrated and all are intended for adults but great for young readers as well. See them all at BadgerValley.com where the Wisconsin sales tax is pre-paid and nationwide shipping is free....

Biographie:
About the Author James Brakken writes novels and short stories from his Bayfield County home in Northwest Wisconsin. His award-winning, 2012 historical fiction novel, The Treasure of Namakagon, led to his Chief Namakagon trilogy, revealing the life and true identity of Chief Namakagon while exploring lumberjack life in 1880s Wisconsin. Brakken confirmed the existence of Namakagon's lost silver mine when he re-published the 1892 memoir of Benjamin Armstrong, friend of both Chief Buffalo and Namakagon. Between novels, Brakken writes short stories based on northwest Wisconsin's good old days. The Moose & Wilbur P. Dilby and Billyboy, the Corner Bar Bear each contain 37 captivating up north short stories. Recognized as a leader in lake protection, Brakken wrote Saving our Lakes & Streams, a handbook of practical things we can do now to protect our surface waters for tomorrow. DARK, A Campfire Companion is an illustrated collection of 56 of the author's scary short stories and delightfully frightening poems. It's great reading for dark and stormy nights. Today, few know of the 1939 plight of Ray Olson, chased through the Chequamegon Forest by throngs of bloodthirsty men hoping to collect a dollars1,000 dead-or-alive reward. Alias Ray Olson reveals facts never before made public about this almost forgotten, appalling affair. Brakken's 10th title, Infamous, is another fact-based, true-crime, novel. But this Great Depression Era woodsman deserved to be hunted by the FBI for crimes committed in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. Brakken won 2nd place out of 10,000 worldwide entries in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards for Treasure. He also received the 2013, 2014, and 2016 Lake Superior Writers Award and the coveted Wisconsin Writers Association Jade Ring. Of Brakken's writing, Publisher's Weekly Magazine and Amazon Books said, Difficult to put down. ... A great read, and the flow of words is like an old fashioned song. (See more reviews on preceding pages.) Most of the author's books are illustrated and all are intended for adults but great for young readers as well. See them all at BadgerValley.com where the Wisconsin sales tax is pre-paid and nationwide shipping is free.

Sommaire:
Bayfield County, Wisconsin author, James Brakken, began writing in college when Muskie Madness, his story of a fishing trip with his father, appeared in Boy's Life Magazine in 1974. More articles followed in Sports Afield, Out-door Life, Field & Stream, School Arts, and other publications.His first novel, The Treasure of Namakagon (2012), features a boy in an 1883 northern Wisconsin lumber camp and Chief Namakagon's legendary lost silver mine. The suspicious 1886 death of Namakagon and the 1846 dis-appearance of a Sault Ste. Marie murder fugitive led to two more novels, Tor Loken & the Death of Chief Namakagon (2013) and The Secret Life of Chief Namakagon (2014), where Brakken solved a 168-year-old cold case when he proved Chief Namakagon was actually John Falcon Tanner, the adventurer who vanished in 1846. Brakken's Annotated Early Life Among the Indians (2016) documents of Chief Namakagon's silver mine and offers many great 1800s Lake Superior tales.Treasure won 2nd place out of 10,000 worldwide entries in the 2013 Am-azon Breakthrough Novel Awards. Brakken also received the 2013, 2014, and 2016 Lake Superior Writers Award and the coveted Wisconsin Writers Association Jade Ring for his collection, The Moose and Wilbur P. Dilby plus 36 Fairly True Tales from Up North (2015). Brakken's Billyboy, the Corner Bar Bear added another 37 fairly true tales to his list of published short stories.Brakken earned statewide recognition for conservation as reflected in his Saving Our Lakes & Streams: 101 Practical Things You Can Do Today (2016). Brakken offers discounts of this book to conservation clubs and lake associations. Alias Ray Olson (2017) is a true-crime thriller that exposes the truth behind the June 1939 homicides in Sawyer County and Wisconsin's largest-ever manhunt. It's a close look at the perceived guilt of a man con-victed in the press and hunted by hundreds. Brakken's INFAMOUS (2019) is another true-life, north woods crime novel from the 1930s. It chronicles John Henry Seadlund's rise to Public Enemy #1 in only 4 years. DARK: A Campfire Companion (2012) is an illustrated collection of 56 of the author's delightfully frightening short stories and poems. It's ideal for dark & stormy nights or for reading under the blankets by flashlight.45 Fairly True Tales from the Old Corner Bar offers hilarious tales of life way back when. It's a must-read for anyone who's ever been up north.Brakken's most recent fact-based novel, Thornapple Girl,(2020) chroni-cles the life of Myra Dietz, a young woman caught up in her father's 1910 struggle against lumber barons who denied him of his earnings. It is accom-panied by the long overdue publishing of Myra's lost 1929 memoir, edited by Sybil Brakken.Of Brakken's writing, Publisher's Weekly Magazine and Amazon Books said, Difficult to put down. ... A great read, and the flow of words is like an old fashioned song. James Brakken illustrates all his stories. Intended for adults, all are great for young readers, too. Find them at BadgerValley.com, where shipping to USA and APO addresses is still free and state sales tax is paid by the publisher....