William Mann is the author of The Long Reckoning, a literary historical fiction series set in the American West between 1840 and 1890. The Rancher, Book One, follows the rancher Elias Harlan into Blackfeet country in the years of the Starvation Winter of 1883-84.William and his wife Chris live and travel full-time in an RV with their dogs, Sadie and Bronn. Each novel in the series is researched on the ground-the ridges, rivers, reservations, and trading posts where the historical events actually occurred.Empty Ground, Book Two, follows the Irish immigrant Declan Shea across thirty-five years of the buffalo hunt. The Long Way Home, Book Three, follows the Northern Cheyenne exodus of 1878-79. Book Four is underway.