They had been listening to the legends and secrets of the Eagle clan for two days. Now, the most important moment had arrived, the old medicine man's instructions for their coming-into-manhood journey to the Sacred Mountain. John Duncklee has been a cowboy, rancher, quarter horse breeder, university professor and award-winning author of thirty-three books and two hundred articles, poetry and short stories. He is a Western Writers of America Spur award winner and was awarded a $5000 unrestricted fellowship for writing excellence by the Arizona Commission on the Arts.. He lives in Las Cruces, N.M. with his wife, Penny, an accomplished watercolorist.