Zanski: Stories

Set in the American southwest of the late 19th Century, men and women in the U.S. State of Arenoso take on all hazards for family, friends, and community, not so much civilizing the West as much as humanizing it. Sometimes with guns. While there is a finished plot in each book, they sre best read in order, for purposes of character specifics and backstory. A five-book series, Arenoso Trails progresses in the titles' alphabetical order. Rudimentary maps and graphics may be viewed at [https://arenosotrailseriesmaps.blogspot.com/2023/03/hard-trail-map-arenoso-trails-series.html]

In rural Coldwater County, a hundred and fifty miles east of the Cascade Mountain Range, County Sheriff Tate Plummer and his friend, County Health Services Social Worker Gary Mazur, confront murders most foul. Mazur narrates their stories, bringing an unusual perspective -- and the application of chaos theory -- to police procedures and county politics in their remote mountain valley. The stories are in a progressive order, indicated by the alphabetical order of their titles. At this time, there are two books in the series. A crude map and county office representation and directory may be viewed at [https://coldwatercountyseries.blogspot.com/2023/03/index.html]

Ohio farm boy Judah Becker, part Seneca by his grandmother, and trained in the old ways by his full-blood uncle, joins the Union Army at Chattanooga in 1864 just after turning 18. He becomes a scout-sharpshooter, a role that will carry him from Georgia and Tennessee to Louisiana, Texas, and finally, New Mexico, in the 1880s. There are improvised maps at https://senecaseries-zanski.blogspot.com/