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A modern 13-year old boy, Zane Rasmussen, falls into a coma and wakes up on Jacksons Island in the Mississippi River where he is found by Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and freed slave, Jim.. It is June, 1849, and Zane gradually accepts that these are living characters from Twains novels, while they finally conclude hes a traveler from a future time.. He agrees to accompany them as they prepare "for howling adventures" into Indian Territory.. Their plans are halted when Becky Thatcher is kidnapped and criminals demand a $12,000 gold ransom.. During their fast-paced adventure, Zane realizes this is a totally different and, in many ways, better world than the one he left behind.. He survives, but then has no idea how to return home. .



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Tim Champlin

Novelist Tim Champlin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, only 80 miles from Jamestown, North Dakota where fellow western novelist Louis L'Amour was born 29 years earlier. Similarities in their histories don't end there. They both have French/Irish ancestry and the fathers of both writers were large-animal veterinarians--a fact that may explain their mutual love of horses, buffaloes and other wild and domestic critters. Drawing on his familiarity with the West,his knowledge of western fiction and his admiration for L'Amour, Champlin has written THE WILD WEST OF LOUIS L'AMOUR for Voyageur Press in Minnesota. This well-illustrated book was published August 5, 2015 and is currently available for order on Amazon. This is a must-read for L'Amour fans and anyone interested in western fiction and how it relates to the historic west. Champlin grew up along the fringes of the old frontier in Nebraska, Missouri and Arizona before moving to Tennessee. After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Middle Tennessee State College, he declined an offer to become a Border Patrol Agent with the U.S.Immigration Service in order to finish work on his Master of Arts degree in English at Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University) . Living in the West fostered Champlin's lifelong interest in outdoor sports such as shooting, tennis, sailing and riding. It also gave him a love of the Old West that eventually led him to write historical fiction. After he spent ten years selling magazine articles and short stories, Ballantine Books published his first western novel, SUMMER OF THE SIOUX, in 1981. One of the most underappreciated historical novelists, Tim Champlin is a treasure waiting to be discovered. With more than 39 novels to his credit, he is highly regarded for his literary style and well-researched stories that touch on almost every aspect of frontier America, from outlaws and lawmen, the U.S. Cavalry, Indians, prospector, stagecoaches, railroads, steamboats, juvenile time travel, to the Pony Express, the Civil War, a search for the Templar treasure, and even a clash between Jack the Ripper and Annie Oakley. As one of his growing number of fans says, "Champlin is a superb storyteller with a masterful ability to seize his reader's total attention with a vivid narrative, memorable characters and unexpected plot twists." In 1999 his short story, "Color at Forty-Mile" was a finalist for a Spur Award from Western Writers of America. His 2012 Berkley novel, THE SECRET OF LODESTAR, was also a runner-up for a Spur Award. The following year this book was issued in audio read by the well knownr George Guidall. Lodestar is a thrilling tale of an ex-railroad detective who pursues a convict to a Nevada ghost town to recover stolen gold. Thorndike Press published its exciting sequel,CROSS OF GOLD in November, 2013, and the final tale in the trilogy, BORDER REPRISAL in 2014. BEECHER ISLAND, another



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