D.A. Galloway

I grew up in rural Pennsylvania near Gettysburg. After a long career in the paper industry and writing a bestselling nonfiction book, Safety WALK Safety TALK, I decided to follow my dream of writing a novel. I enjoy reading about adventurers and explorers, traveling internationally, riding a recumbent tandem bike, and spending time with my grandchildren. As a teenager, I worked on a fruit farm in Pennsylvania. It is here I met Redfield, a Crow Indian who lived a simple life but had a profound effect on the way I saw the world and people around me. I spent a summer in Yellowstone National Park in the late 1970's giving guided tours on Yellowstone Lake. When I was not working, my days were spent exploring all corners of that magnificent land, often in the backcountry. My love for our nation’s first national park is rooted in that wonderful experience. I've included some photos from my time in the park in the Author Updates. My debut novel, Burning Ground, is part fiction, part historical, and part autobiographical. The Frontier Traveler Series follows Graham Davidson as he travels back in time to the American West in the 1870s. His adventures take him through Yellowstone before it was a national park (Burning Ground: Book 1). His journey continues in Montana and the Little Bighorn Valley at the height of the Indian Wars (Fatal Ground: Book 2). He is caught up in the flight of the Nez Perce from eastern Oregon into Yellowstone and Montana (Bitter Ground: Book 3). While confronting wilderness perils and enduring cultural hostilities, Graham is comforted by the love of a Crow woman, Makawee. Can their love stand the test of time?