detail from George Catlin's painting, "The Bear Dance," which shows the big canoe [bottom-center left] venerated by the Lakota-speaking Mandan Indians of South Dakota. Lawyer-turned-artist Catlin, who painted from life among several tribes in the mid 1830s, said the object looked more like a large barrel-- called a tun-- of the type used to haul drinking water or beer for the crews of ocean-going vessels Sure do wish Catlin had moved in for a close-up-- what is that on the lid of the so-called big canoe? The painting in the National Archives can be reproduced for publication in high resolution



unpublished Book III in The Madoc Trilogy

This 120,000 word novel was commissioned, researched, written, delivered and paid for, then killed by Bantam Books along with 50 other titles in November 1992 in a tax-motivated downsizing. Rights have reverted to the author who offers the novel for the first time to complete publication of The Madoc Trilogy.


The colony Madoc founded on the Ohio River flourishes in the Kantuck. Madoc's bard, Rhys, is the leader, and as an old man many years later recalls how Madoc's little brother, Einion, ran off to live with the Senaca.


Madoc returns to Britain where he becomes embroiled in the intrigue at the court of English King Henry II, reunites with his beloved little sister and his elder brother, leader of a sect of apostate Christians. The King drafts Madoc and his ship to go off on the second Crusade for which journey Madoc's brother gives him one of the first compasses in Northern Europe.

The colony is chased farther up the Mississippi-Missouri River system into the territory of the Lakota, later to be called the Sioux, with whom they settle down. It was their anomalous descendants who were chronicled & painted by Philadelphia lawyer-turned-artist George Catlin. His paintings inspired the suggested cover for this final book of the Saga.


















... enlargement from the painting of the object the Mandan Indians called the big canoe


































More stories by Pat Winter...

Americana
1865
Civil War novel in-progress looks over the shoulder of the only commander out of a half dozen with the guts to win the Civil War. Things might literally have gone south but for the tenacity of Lincoln's bulldog who shares the vision of how to repair the breach and restore the Union from first shots in April 1861 to the April of Appomattox in 1865.
MADOC
Book I in The Madoc Saga... 322-years before Columbus, a Welsh sea captain sails west in the wake of the Vikings to save a remnant of his family from destruction by the Norman-English King Henry. Originally published by Bantam Books Inc. (ISBN 0-553-28277-8). Reissued by The Authors Guild, and on sale at Amazon.com (ISBN:0-595-16532-X)
MADOC'S HUNDRED
Book II in The Madoc Saga.... to ensure survival of his New World colony, Madoc joins Shawnee Indian allies, which provokes Iroquois enemies farther north on the Mississippi River. Original Bantam Books title (ISBN: 0-553-28521-1) is reissued by The Authors Guild, available at Amazon.com (ISBN: 0-595-16536-2)
SONGS OF THE BIG CANOE
Book III in The Madoc Saga... Madoc returns to Britain for reinforcements while his New World colony finds a permanent home among Lakota Indians on the Missouri River. Written, researched in Wales, paid for on delivery under Bantam commission, then downszed with reversion of rights to authors of about a third of Pubisher's quarterly list.
WOMAN CALLED ARKANSAS
A French soldier of fortune and a Quapaw Indian woman risk everything for love in the wilds of French Louisiana. Original Bantam Books title: "River of Destiny" (ISBN 0-553-2586-9), reissued by The Authors Guild under the Author's original title WOMAN CALLED ARKANSAS (ISBN 0-595-14029-7)
Contemporary
ON AIR
A ballzy reporter is forced to confront her vulnerability when she team up with a sentimental cop to stop a stalker who blames women for all his troubles. Complete 90,000-word novel and 122-page screenplay featured on InkTip linked below, based on events and experience at KFWB All-News radio when the Hollywood station was a true newspaper of the air.
DRIVER
A commercial actress gets more than she bargained for when she telepathically hooks up with a TV star revived after near-death experience in a case of stolen identity that ends in madness, murder and ironic new life for both of them. 109-page screenplay adapted from the Pinnacle Books novel (ISBN: 0-523-41278-9)
Science Fiction
INSIDE MOTHER
Human orphans raised by a surrogate mechanical mother invent a religion to explain their circumstances. © 1970 under byline Pat De Graw in the paperback anthology "Infinity One" published by Lancer Books, Inc. The original story "Inside Mother" is one of the log entries stored in the mechanical mother's computer database that is the unpublished 150,000-word novel LOG OF THE DOG.

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