The towns described here, at least one from each state of the United States, are real; the persons entirely imagined. Human beings are inherently interesting, no matter what they do or where they live.
The photo on the cover is from Historic Montana, featuring the Bon Ton building in a view of the north side of the 300 block of Main Street, Lewistown, Montana. Source: Montana Memory Project. Photographer: Unidentified. Date: 1994.
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Tom Sharp is a Native American of Aleut heritage, a member of Seldovia Village Tribe. He is the author of numerous books, including Spectacles: A Sampler of Poems and Prose, Taurean Horn Press (ISBN 0-931552-10-9), a novel, Hans and the Clock (ISBN 979-8580172484), The book of science, SciFi (ISBN 979-8694935210), Things People Do (ISBN 979-8687425568), The book of beliefs (ISBN 979-8683553593), The I Ching (ISBN 979-8573510620), Images (ISBN 979-8577560515), Aleut Artifacts (ISBN 979-8575608998), Aleut Words (ISBN 979-8582103394), and First Nations (ISBN 979-8682924769).