R.C. Reynolds was raised in northern Wisconsin and moved to Colorado after college. He has worked as a ski instructor, hunting and fishing guide, outdoor writer and a high school and college Language Arts teacher. He has had several articles, essays and short stories placed in state and national magazines and has had three novels published. Reynolds has lived in the Rocky Mountains for thirty-five years and has spent some of the best hours of his life hunting, fishing and wandering in their unique splendor. He has also worked on cattle ranches from Colorado to Montana and has had the opportunity to have known and worked with some of the few remaining individuals who still light up the modern day camp fires with the same strength, wisdom, values and free spirit as their half-tamed nineteenth century counterparts--and still deserve to bear the name "Cowboy."