W Michael FarmerW. Michael Farmer combines fifteen-plus years of research into nineteenth-century Apache history and culture with Southwest-living experience to fill his stories with a genuine sense of time and place. A retired PhD physicist, his scientific researchhas included measurement of atmospheric aerosols with laser-based instruments. He has published a two-volume reference book on atmospheric effects on remote sensing as well as fiction in anthologies and award-winning essays. His novels have won numerous awards, including three Will Rogers Gold and five Silver Medallions, New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards for Literary, Adventure, Historical Fiction, a Non-Fiction New Mexico Book of the Year, and a Spur Finalist Award for Best First Novel. His book series includes The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, and Legends of the Desert. His nonfiction books include Apacheria, True Stories of Apache Culture 1860-1920, and Geronimo, Prisoner of Lies. Among his most recent books are the award-winning novels The Odyssey of Geronimo: Twenty-Three years a Prisoner of War, The Iliad of Geronimo: A Song of Blood and Fire, Trini! Come! Geronimo's Captivity of Trinidad Verdin, Chato: Desperate Warrior, and it's sequel, Chato: Proud Outcast. Read More Read Less