Following retirement I felt the need to fill a void, so I wrote my first book: The Man from Bandera. The story of a troubled VietNam veteran who finds himself involved in scandalous affairs in a small town near Vicksburg,  Mississippi. 

As a result of my research on Bandera, Texas, I was impressed with the story of camels in Texas during the Civil War, and wrote my second novel:  The Camel Boy, a novel about the Civil War.