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Gary George spent his teenage years in Needles, California, and his Smoke Tree novels are set in the Mojave Desert of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Gary was blessed with a long and happy marriage to his beloved, Ginny Boyd, author of the book "Birdy Bird." When Ginny died in January 2018, Gary could not write for a while. However, during a seventy-mile backpacking trip across the desert from the Colorado River to the middle of the Mojave National Preserve in May of that year, he began to come to terms with her death. When he returned home, he discovered that immersing himself in his writing allowed him a few hours of relief from sadness, and he began work on "The Carnival, The Cross, and the Burning Desert."
In 2024, Gary was diagnosed with
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Desert Resurrection

"Desert Resurrection" is nearing completion. It should be published late this month or early in March. The novel opens with the death of Dr. Walkley after a fall from the Stepladder Mountains. A retired heart surgeon from Minnesota, Dr. Walkley, had retired early following the death of his wife and spent years travelling the world in a search to understand his life, his beloved's death, and the tr Read more of this blog post »
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“We will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Gary J. George, The House of Three Murders

“There are those who think the desert has been dealt so severe and desiccated a hand by nature that it cannot be rendered more singular and sere by any act of man. But it can be. It had been. And would be yet again. Greed and avarice can always further denigrate even the bleakest of realms. Deep Desert Deception”
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“All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.”
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“There are those who think the desert has been dealt so severe and desiccated a hand by nature that it cannot be rendered more singular and sere by any act of man. But it can be. It had been. And would be yet again. Greed and avarice can always further denigrate even the bleakest of realms. Deep Desert Deception”
Gary J. George

“The boy was called from his work of teaching the dog to retrieve a stick. Secretly, the dog thought he was teaching the boy to throw it. They both came to the call rather reluctantly as each felt himself just on the verge of success.”
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