2011—The Charlie Book
After many months of intensive collaboration, the Charlie Book was finally copyrighted in 2011. My cousins Landes and Donald Shepard, great-grandsons of Uncle Charlie, were the authors, and they credited me as a “Contributing Editor.”

To this day, I have communicated with Cousin Don only electronically; Lan and Elaine and Valerie and I have been guests in each other’s dwellings, and we’ve had cause to rejoice that our respective e-mail facilities impose neither per-message or per-word charges.

Lan has said many times that he has felt Charlie’s presence, driving him on and obliging him to keep the project going—as if he were “channeling” his remarkable and much-maligned ancestor. 		Charlie
The book has drawn heavily on my researches into Uncle Charlie’s parentage, his youth in Freedom, Cattaraugus County, and his life before he became a legend of the American West. Had Lan not recruited me to the effort, the book might have reflected to its detriment the sloppy research that Utah chroniclers have visited upon his prominent kin.
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