TRUE STORY. Bella survived an abusive powerbroker father with organized crime ties, a drug-addicted mother and a physically/sexually abusive brother. Shocking & inspirational. When she couldn't cry, she tattooed a crying angel to cry for her.
(Richard M. Feldman) Ever since I was a young boy, the only thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. I wanted to own and work on a real ranch, with cattle and horses. Especially horses.
While I never became a cowboy, considering everything I have done
Known as "Indian Jim" because of the tracking and survival skills I learned from Australian Aborigines. Wilderness is my passion.
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In 1965, after being released from active duty with the US Marine Corps and with a hole in my soul from the impending sale of the family ranch, I immigrated to Australia. As a natural adventurist I fell in with some of the most outrageous characters in the Northern Territory ("Crocodile Dundee" country), where I learned to excel at the dangerous game of bull catching, capturing wild bulls and buffalos on the open range wilderness. Early off-trail explorations of the wildest country in Australia, southwest Tasmania, led to a World Wildlife Fund project to determine the status of the Tasmanian Tiger, a large marsupial carnivore with stripes across its back. My favorite non-fiction authors at the time were Henry David Thoreau, Justice William O. Douglas ("My Wilderness"), and Robert Ruark. I first published in "Walkabout", an Australian geographic magazine, and then in "Animal Kingdom", the journal of the New York Zoological Society.
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