Buster The Bridger Mountain Bear + Pacer Coulee Chronicles by Wayne Edwards

The Author Wayne Edwards is a born and bred Montanan. He grew up in the rural town of Denton in the US State of Montana where he graduated in 1971 from Denton High School. Wayne attended Montana State University in Bozeman, graduating with a per- Med/Chemistry degree in 1975. He then received his Doctorate of […]

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The Author

Wayne Edwards is a born and bred Montanan. He grew up in the rural town of Denton in the US State of Montana where he graduated in 1971 from Denton High School. Wayne attended Montana State University in Bozeman, graduating with a per- Med/Chemistry degree in 1975. He then received his Doctorate of Dental Surgery from the University of Washington in 1980, returning to Bozeman where he practiced Dentistry for six years.

In 1986, he returned to his hometown as a third-generation banker of the independent family-owned agricultural bank started by his grandfather in 1929.

Typical of the small-town way, when the local high school football coach left shortly before the start of the 1991 season, the former college football player Edwards agreed to serve as the interim head coach at the eight-man football school. The interim designation turned into a highly enjoyable and satisfying six-year stint. This playing and coaching experience served as an inspiration for his creation of the fictional story that is Pacer Coulee Chronicles.

Married for forty-seven years to his college sweetheart, Wayne and Lorinda are now retired from banking and split their time between their homes in Bozeman, Montana and Cave Creek, Arizona. They enjoy spending time with their three daughters and sons-in-law, and their eight grandchildren.

Quirky Story

Something you’d only see in a small town

The rural small town where I lived and worked had a business district that typical of small towns consisted of only two city blocks. Like most little towns, the usual and customary parking practice was one of angle parking (as opposed to parallel). One day as I was coming out of the bank and about to go across the street to go to the Post Office, a car directly in front of the Post Office was backing out from its angle position into the middle of the street. As I got closer to the moving vehicle, I was surprised to see that nobody was in the car…a headless driver, if you will! As the car began to pick up speed, I could see that it was headed towards another angle-parked car on the opposite side of the street. Fortunately, this incident occurred before I became old and fat, and I was able to chase down the now -increasing-in-speed vehicle and open the driver-side door and jump in. Only after applying the brakes and stopping the runaway car just before it crashed into the other car did I discover the true ‘headless driver’ of the car…it seems that when Mrs Goettel exited the car to enter the Post Office, she didn’t quite get the shift all the way to ‘park’, leaving it in ‘reverse’. The angle to the curb was such was such that the car wouldn’t have moved had her aging Shih Tzu not crawled down from the seat to lay on the driver-side floorboards, thereby depressing the accelerator and ‘driving’ the car! 

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The Book

Buster

This endearing story is for me a bedtime story for parents/grandparents to read to their youngsters. The illustrations by Gina Daws are vivid, magical and engaging for very young imaginations. It’s a simple story of the rural wildlife found in Montana told through twelve animated characters working together to get Buster the black bear out of an embarrassing situation on Bridger Mountain. You have adorable characters like Gabriellle ‘Gabby’ Gopher nosey-know-all, Brutus the grumpy bad-tempered badger, Oliver Wendell Owl lll, the wise old owl, Billy Bob Bobcat a feisty little so and so, and of course Buster the black bear with a penchant for huckleberries, insects and honey.  It’s a cute bedtime read for the little ones.

Pacer Coulee Chronicles

This exhilarating adventure story is aimed at an upper young adult/ adult audience school students who are passionate about school sports and all the goings on off the field. The book is set in the 1990s in Pacer Coulee a small rural town in Central Montana exposed to all the seasonal wild weather conditions Montana gets. Edna Coffman is the domineering matrix head, who’s used to getting her way, she certainly rules the roost. She’s passionate about sport and with the school’s failing sports achievements she instructs Lester her athletics director to seek coaches for the school’s football and basketball squads. Having hired Luke and Madison, Edna is looking forward to success so that she can hold her head up high in the community especially when it comes to the school’s arch-rivals the ‘Goddam Catholics.’ However, the story isn’t just about regaining champion status for the school it gives an insight as to how the schools and local communities in rural Montana coexisted then side by side for the benefit of all. The attention to detail Wayne addresses is phenomenon, the tension with all the drama expected from a small-town America community is there in bucket loads, all the gossip and shenanigans as well as the latest farming news are all too clear at times to see and read in the local paper, ‘The Pacer Coulee Chronicles.’ The storyline deals with real issues that impact the rural community, death and unfortunate circumstances. For me the legion of students cast as characters here with the townsfolk as well brings this book to life, the drama and the tension plays out right to the bitter end like any good book’s storyline should. I loved the characters Dolph, Earl and of course the unruly Brewster sisters. What a Book!

A Stones Throw (Coming shortly)

Middle Grade/Young Adult fiction

A heart-warming story set in the 1960’s, about an orphaned girl Maggie living in an orphanage in San Francisco. Her life is about to change when her paternal grandfather from rural Montana a veteran of WWI shows up and gets custodial rights to bring her back to his homestead ranch in the wilds of Montana. The rustic farming life she’s about to face is a far cry from the bustling city life of a cosmopolitan city such as San Francisco. For a twelve-year-old girl having to adapt to a new life is both scary and daunting, as well as having to get to know Ira an old war veteran a man who until now she had never heard of or met. The relationship between the two is difficult, Maggie doesn’t know how to relate to her unknown grandfather, like wise for Ira getting to know and understand what a twelve-year-old girl needs at her time of life is unfathomable to him. Yet the two of them need to adjust to each other if success is to be achieved.

If you wish to know more about Wayne Edwards and his books, then head to his social media sites listed below

Webpage: www.wayneedwardsbooks.com  

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/wayneedwardsbooks

 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wayne.edwards56232

If you wish to purchase any of Wayne’s books then you can click the Amazon links below, or head to his webpage.

Thank you, Wayne, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to read and chat about both you and your books.

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