Blue Skies Falling Author:Arthur Winfield Knight Sam Bonner is on a journey. It is the Bicentennial Summer of 1976, and the country is much different from when Sam was younger. He and his young wife, Sara, are traveling through Southwestern America, visiting the sights that Sam himself immortalized as one of Hollywood's premier directors of a genre of film that captured a generation of viewers... more »: the Western. There was a day when Sam ruled the industry, and death was but a far-off rumor. His first two wives learned all too well that Sam was a man too concerned with liquor, loose women, and weeklong parties to truly settle down. But now, a reality he did not believe possible has come to haunt him: Sara's time has grown painfully short. Although the road lies wide open before them, each mile they travel brings them closer and closer to an end that Sara is terrified to face, and that Sam is not ready to admit to.The country is as beautiful and full of wonder as young Sara is, but also like her, the period that Sam captured on film has changed and begun to fade away.... From Kearney, Missouri, where Frank and Jesse James were raised to the mysterious grave of Billy the Kid to Deadwood, South Dakota, where Wild Bill Hickock was dealt his last hand, Arthur Winfield Knight's Blue Skies Falling chronicles an America that fights to be remembered. As poetic as the Southwest itself, Blue Skies Falling captures the end of an era and the death of an art form.AUTHORBIO: Arthur Winfield Knight is the author of Johnnie D., The Secret Life of Jesse James, Novel and Outlaws, Lawmen, and Bad Women, Book of Poems. He serves as adjunct professor in the College of Professional Studies at the University of San Francisco.« less