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The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Trilogy Book Two) by Ronald E. Yates Billy Battles is definitely not in Kansas anymore. As Book 2 of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy opens, Billy is far from his Kansas roots and his improbable journeys are...

I CALLED HIM A BASTARD to his bones. “Existimos por culpa de este cabrón,” I said, staring up at the sarcophagus holding the remains of Cristóbal Colón, a.k.a. Christopher Columbus, in the Catedral de Sevilla. We exist because of him. Actually, I might...

E.L. Doctorow, Literary Time Traveler Who Stirred the Past Into Fiction, Dies at 84 Bruce Weber 21 July 2015 E. L. Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels — including “Ragtime...

Description: Western Kansas 1860. Billy Battles is born on a remote homestead just off the storied Santa Fe Trail. More than one hundred years later a great-grandson inherits two trunks filled with Billy's personal effects. Also in those trunks are...

About Ronald Yates: I am a former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Illinois where I was also the Dean of the College of Media. My book, The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles...