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Mark Todd

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Todd is a novelist and poet who's read and performed his work across ihe West, on the East Coast, and in Berlin, Germany.

Author of two books of poetry, Wire Song, Conundrum Press, 2001, and Tamped, But Loose Enough to Breathe, Ghost Road Press, 2008.

Co-author (with wife, Kym O'Connell-Todd) of The Silverville Saga Series, including Little Greed Men, All Plucked Up, and The Magicke Outhouse, all from Raspberry Creek Books.

His science fiction novel, Strange Attractors, was released in October, 2012.

His latest work, also co-authored with Kym, is Wild West Ghosts, a nonfiction book on haunted hotels in Colorado.

He and Kym live near Gunnison, Colorado, with four indoor cats, three sometimes indoor dogs, and six horses who definitely have to l

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	Little Greed Men (Silverville Saga, #1) by Kym O'Connell-Todd, Mark Todd (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Plucked Up (Silverville Saga, #2) by Kym O'Connell-Todd, Mark Todd (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magicke Outhouse (Silverville Saga, #3) by Kym O'Connell-Todd, Mark Todd (Goodreads Author) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wire Song by Mark Todd (Goodreads Author), Dana Gioia 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Attractors - A Story about Roswell 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild West Ghosts: An Amateur Ghost Hunting Guide for Haunted Hotels in Southwest Colorado by Mark Todd (Goodreads Author), Kym O'Connell-Todd 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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This post is the second in a two-part series describing my slaveholding ancestors and their slaves. Click here for Part One, which highlights selective slave-owner ancestors, their lives, and an overview of their slave holdings.

In this post, I enumerate below all the names, dates, and locations of the owners and their known slaves.

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