Local Author Talk and Release Party – J. Hoolihan Clayton

J Hoolihan Clayton is First Nations Plains Cree. Having lived a diverse and authentic life in the American West, she now writes history as fiction in order to inspire and elucidate. At this event, she will present her newest book “Discretion is Valor” – Ensnared once more within the ongoing dispute between the War Department and Department of the Interior over which will decide Indian policy, Charles Wolfe Collins, army veteran, Irish immigrant and trusted investigator for eminent politicians in Washington, is thrust into the most perilous regions of New Mexico Territory in 1880. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has requested that Collins delve into accusations that the military commander of the District of New Mexico has committed crimes against Apache peoples in the midst of a bloody conflict with the renowned leader, Victorio. Forced to contend with brutal terrain, treacherous outlaws, enraged Apache warriors and vastly conflicting accounts of the incident in question, there is small certainty that Charles Collins will actually complete his assignment or even survive to make a report. Books will be available for sale.