BIRTH OF AMERICA BOOKS (tm)
REAL PEOPLE, TRUE STORIES
HISTORICALLY ACCURATE AND FUN TO READ
(They're written like novels with dialogue based on journals,
diaries and newspapers)
HISTORY AS IT HAPPENSä IN HIGH ACTION AMERICAN HISTORY BOOKS
ABOUT
US
Delores Brown Wiles was born in Chanute, Kansas, raised in Greeley,
Colorado, and later, living in southern California, contracted with a talent
agency for TV commercials and print modeling. She appears on the cover of Book
1 of this Series, The Blackjack Queen,
Cutthroats and Good Time Girls of the Gold Rush [1849-1859], spearing the
poker game's "extra" Ace of Spades with her Bowie Knife.
In addition to Author and Model, Delores'
careers include historical and legal Research Associate, Probate and Litigation
Paralegal, Professional Photographer with 126 publishing credits for wild
animal and horse photography in newspapers, magazine articles, magazine covers,
posters sold worldwide and the covers of many books, including some for Birth
of America Books.
She traveled 10,000 miles interviewing
historians and museum curators, photographed actual locations and artifacts,
reviewed libraries' Special Collections, read period newspapers, journals and
diaries, and poured through National Archive documents. She's lectured on
American History included in the books at Colleges, Universities, Libraries,
Museums, as well as Military and Service Organizations.
Born in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, Gary H. Wiles worked his grandpa's
cattle ranch near Monument, Colorado when young, drove trucks blasting
mountains for dam and road construction. He later graduated from Chula Vista
California High School, then attended UCLA in 1950 on
an NROTC Scholarship, which Gary aborted when he volunteered for the U.S. Army
to serve in Korea. He later graveyarded in an urban slum as a
cop, while attending San Diego State University by day. After earning
his BA in English, Gary served arrest warrants as a Deputy Marshal while
attending the University of San Diego's night Law School for four years. He
graduated second in his class as student body president with a Juris Doctorate.
Gary litigated antitrust and commercial cases throughout the United States for
the next 30 years with a 93.57% trial success rate until retiring as the senior
partner of the largest independent law firm in La Jolla, California.
Gary and Delores wrote numerous published
articles on horses and history. They have written three high action history
books in their HISTORY AS IT HAPPENS™ series about the stirring
period from 1800 to 1836 featuring the westward expansion of the greatest
country in the world, largely driven by the engine of the fur trade, and a
rousing historical trilogy on America's western expansion in increments of one
decade each between 1849 and 1879 fired by land acquired in the Mexican War,
gold and silver rushes, America's Civil War, the trans-continental railroad and
the emergent cattle industry with its rugged cowboys and range wars. Gary
selected, contrived or created the graphics and maps for all of their six
books.