Wayne Winterton
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Dr. Winterton began his career in 1963 as a teacher and later, as the principal of two school on the Navajo Reservation.  He has also served as the Superintendent of the Albuquerque Indian High School, Superintendent of Schools for the Northern Pueblos Agency in New Mexico, and during 1978-79, he was the interim President of the Institute of American Indian Arts, a junior college in Santa Fe. 

In 1986, he joined the staff of the Bureau of Land Management's National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona, as the Division Chief for Administration and Media Services, and served briefly as Center Director before his retirement in 2004 with forty-one years of public service.

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The Secret at Nizhoni Toh
A Novel of the Southwest

Grace Garretson, an Anglo girl and Kee Notah, a Navajo boy fall in love, marry and raise a daughter, Rena

Grace. a courier service driver, is robbed of priceless museum artifacts, the keys to a 400-year-old treasure on the Navajo Reservation.  The thieves' quest for the treasure is thwarted by fifteen-year-old Rena's discovery of a secret that dates back to the time of the Anasazi.

Not only is the case of the stolen artifacts solved, but also a forty-year-old trading post murder and a revelation that changes the personal lives of the Notah family.

  

 

 


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From Ace to Zamboni
101 More Dust Bin Stories
 With an introduction by Slim Randles, syndicated columnist
and host of the radio show, Home Country.


Rosalie Duthe (1748-1830) was the world's first official dumb blonde. Duh!

How Bill Haley (1925-1981) became the rock 'n roll success story known as Bill Haley and His Comets.

Edna Purviance (1895-1958) faked her way into Charley heart and how Chaplin honored her for the rest of her life.

Harvey Wilcox (1832-1891) built a community based on Christian values.  The name of the community?  Hollywood.

  
 



 

  


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Stories from
History's Dust Bin
Volume 1, Second Edition

 With an introduction by Eduardo Pagén, co-host of
 the PBS television series, History Detectives.

Was David Atchison (1807-1886) the President of the United States for one day?  You decide.

<---- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), a founder of University College London, dictated that he be mummified upon his death.  Today, nearly 200 years after his death, he still occasionally attends Board Meetings where he is recorded as: "Present, but not voting." 

Meet Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), the author of the Devil's Dictionary.

Henry Darger (1892-1973) was a loner, a nobody, and a gifted artist whose talent was unknown until he died.
 



 

  


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Stories from
History's Dust Bin
Volume 2, Second Edition
With an introduction by Eduardo Pagén, co-host of
 the PBS television series, History Detectives.

Who was Patrick Gass (1771-1870), and why is a mountain in the Teton's named for him?  Read and learn.

How Homer Hickam's (1943- ) book, Rocket Boys, became the movie October Sky.

<---- Did you know that Laura Keene (1826-1873), the star of the stage play, "Our American Cousin," cradled President Lincoln's head against her shoulder after he was assassinated. 

It's true, a woman named Alice Liddell (1852-1934) was almost certainly the "Alice" in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
 



 

  


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Stories from
History's Dust Bin
Volume 3, Second Edition

With an introduction by Eduardo Pagén, co-host of
 the PBS television series, History Detectives.

<---- Meet His Majesty, Joshua Norton (1818-1880), who is better-known in San Francisco as Norton I, the Emperor of America and Defender of Mexico.

College President William Spooner (1844-1930) is best known for his "tips of the slung."  Opps, "slips of the tongue."

From zero to 632 mph in five seconds, Dr. John Stapp (1910-1999) is the fastest man on Earth.  But why?

Truck driver Larry Walters (1949-1993) set the standard in lawn chair aviation.