Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy by Sage Sweetwater

North American decoys have a long history. Ancient Eskimos used cedar wooden fish to lure other fish within striking distance of handheld spears. Other native Americans made reed ducks to draw prey towards nets. The word decoy apparently comes from the Dutch word de kooi or duck. The first European settlers might well have adopted native ways, although later use of decoys was not consistent. Market hunters, arriving in droves in the mid-19th century, did not have to rely so extensively on decoys to hunt waterfowl. With their increasingly sophisticated firearms, hunters decimated the massive flocks that congregated. The Migratory Bird Treaty of 1918 put an end to commercial hunting, but by then the waterfowl had grown scarce - and cautious. Sportsmen turned to elaborate and realistic decoys to bring the ducks in.

The melting of glaciers frees ancient secrets.  Lesbian author Sage Sweetwater uncovers the shit. Tons of it.  Tabloid feces rising.

Biologist Gerry Kuzyk was hiking with his wife in the remote reaches of the Yukon when he caught the scent of caribou dung wafting through the chill air. Then he saw it the biggest pile of animal droppings he had ever seen, 2½ meters high and stretching over a kilometer of mountainside.

Kuzyk, a researcher with the Yukon Department of Renewable Resources, knew there weren't enough caribou in the entire territory to create such an epic mound. Odder yet, there hadn't been caribou in the area in nearly a century. "It was like being in the 'Twilight Zone,'" said Rick Farnell, a colleague who helped investigate the find. "You could see them from a distance  big, black bands of feces, tons of it."

The mystery was solved by lab analysis: The dung, the product of innumerable migrating caribou herds, had been frozen for thousands of years and only recently exposed by melting ice. Along with the dung, the scientists soon discovered an arsenal of Stone Age darts, arrows and spears.

For most scientists, the warming of the planet is a disturbing trend that could radically alter the environment. But for archaeologists, it has prompted a breathtaking treasure hunt. Without doing any digging, scientists are scooping up artifacts, mummies and fossils long hidden in the depths of monstrous glaciers.

"We walk right up and pull arrows and animals out of the ice," Farnell said. Many of the items are simply the random debris of 10,000 years of passing human and animal traffic. But the glaciers also have coughed up some stunning finds. In 1991, Swiss hikers in the Alps found "Otzi," a 5,300-year-old "ice man" felled by a flint-tipped arrow. A second ice man with a perfectly preserved woven hat and gopher-skin cloak melted out of the ice in British Columbia in 1999.

"It's incredible what's in the ice," said E. James Dixon, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.

Piece by piece, the artifacts rising from the ancient ice are beginning to recast archaeologists' understanding of the thousands of years after the last great Ice Age, an epoch when animals began probing the northern fringes of the planet and bands of humans began to populate North America in large numbers.

"There's a whole new scientific window opening," said Dixon, an expert on the human colonization of North America. Unlike buried dinosaur fossils or crumbling Mayan monuments, the glacier artifacts are relatively unchanged from the day they were first encased in their icy tombs.

Arctic lupine seeds frozen for 10,000 years, for example, grew into healthy plants once they were removed from Ice Age lemming burrows. The ice holds a zoo of perfectly mummified animals: fish, wapiti, sheep, mountain goats, moose, voles and birds.

"They're so beautifully preserved, they look like they're asleep," Farnell said. "You can't tell whether they died last week or died 4,000 years ago."

For archaeologists used to piecing together the past from chips of flint, finding soft organic material is a rare bounty. They have flesh filled with DNA, feathers and dustings of ancient pollen. There are stomachs filled with the remnants of a last meal, and human skin sporting patchworks of tattoos.

The part of iceberg glaciers now melting captured a very particular slice of history  a roughly 10,000-year period from the end of the last great Ice Age to the present. The period began when the forbidding sheets of ice that had covered much of the Northern Hemisphere were beginning to retreat, opening a new realm of the planet to animals, birds and waves of human wanderers who eventually found their way to the Americas.

Over the ensuing years, the glaciers ebbed and flowed, driven by vast, cyclical changes in weather that could send tongues of ice rushing downward, only to retreat a few hundred years later. The last one, known as the Little Ice Age, began around 1450 and completed its cycle around 1900.

The planet is now in the midst of a natural warming cycle that has been compounded by the modern infusion of greenhouse gases. The result is a galloping recession of ice that has not just sprinkled these treasures of history on the landscape, but spewed them, heaping era after era into one big pile.

Lying next to 6,800-year-old stone points are 3,500-year-old dart hurlers and 2-meter spears. Recently dead animals lie next to 3,000-year-old carcasses.

One of the best-known discoveries is the frozen mummy found in the Alps in 1991. Named Otzi after Italy's Otztal Alps, the ice man was found by two hikers who spotted the corpse embedded in the melting Schnalstal glacier.

Otzi had straw shoes, a leather coat with goat fur, a copper ax, a stone dagger and a bow. He was so well preserved that scientists were able to determine his last meal (some bread made of einkorn wheat and meat) and conclude that he journeyed into the mountains between March and June (the pollen in his stomach comes from a tree that blooms then.) The presence of Otzi and other human artifacts has surprised scientists such as Dixon, who had no idea that so much human activity took place on these forbidding fields of ice.

In 1999, a trio of sheep hunters at the edge of a glacier in northwestern British Columbia found a piece of wood on the ground, an unusual sight in that barren area above the tree line. It turned out to be part of a carved walking stick.

Further exploration turned up the corpse of the unfortunate "Kwaday Dan Sinchi," or "Long-ago Person Found." Radiocarbon dating showed the man had lived in the 1400s, and was in his 20s. Found with the body were a carefully woven waterproof hat, a gopher-skin cloak and a leather pouch filled with snacks of plants and fish.

Tools found near Kwaday Dan Sinchi were made from both coastal and interior trees. The gopher cloak came from the interior, while the hat, made of cedar and spruce roots, was in the coastal style. Modern tribal weavers had never seen the hat pattern before but are now re-creating it to preserve history and reuse its excellent design, Strand said.

It's only one of the many tantalizing bits of information that have begun to emerge from the disappearing ice.

The warming is expected to continue and perhaps accelerate, removing the frozen protection that has kept artifacts and bodies in such good condition. Without its blanket of ice, organic material decays and disappears.

Manley, an expert in past climates, layered a series of maps together, looking for areas where glacial melting coincided with good hunting grounds, mineral licks or rock-collecting sites that may have drawn ancient people. "Rather than rely on serendipitous discovery, we wanted to hone in on the most productive areas," Manley said.

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Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy by Sage Sweetwater

Humaneness associated with foothold traps, (the wolf's paw bleeds) leaves unethical capture to incur injury to feet, legs, teeth, and psyche during struggles to escape.  Radiographs and necropsies of injuries from targeted individuals caught in traps, while others' spirits are killed in depredation control efforts.

Evil, traps the wary wolf, poisons the cunning arctic fox, and shoots the polar bear. The dramatic tales of corrupt detractors outnumber the tales of the renegade wolves, but perhaps the prize tale of all is Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy by lesbian author Sage Sweetwater.  There are no sheep or cattle to fall victim to the poison bait in the harsh Arctic, no sheep dogs to eat it and slowly crawl away to their deaths, only the two-legged blackmailers, cheaters, dirty dealers, seal beaters and poachers going for free lunch counters which convert to death stands for them. A feeding station just the size to feed a dirty mouth, taking the bait, a fatal mistake.

What can be said about predation?  It has been clouding human thought for centuries.  The mention of serious literature, such as Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy prevents the dismissal of the blood of the wolf's paw and devices of capture.  Steel traps are devices, when triggered, cause a set of jaws to spring around the wolf's foot and holds it firmly.  These traps are buried lightly near natural or artificial scent posts, around carcasses of larger animals, on wolf trails, and in baited holes with wolf urine or strong scents concocted from carefully guarded formulas of muskrat glands,  beaver castor glands, wolf urine, skunk musk, oil of rotten fish, and tainted brains.

All living things are faced with elements which make its life more difficult.  Fierceness, belief, and other positive combinations can overcome it.  The wolf is no exception.  Where blackmailers, cheaters, dirty dealers, seal beaters and poachers interfere with the natural course of life's events, exert an extra drag on the wolf's life, and sometimes resulting in death. The wolf isn't given to self-sabotage.  Defense is necessary and they never forget about what they are defending.  Although they are not invincible, they run the trail of informed choices, but sometimes they can't outrun the cross-hairs of aerial hunting or outstep a trap because of the lure of food to a hungry wolf.  Knowledge protects, ignorance endangers.

That famous warm lobo wolf, cautious of every trap that fails to hold her.  She is entitled, because of her strong  intellectual nature and her wolf psychology that lets her hold her own for so long, and against such overwhelming odds.


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Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy by Sage Sweetwater

Poaching makes big business.  Hidden among the P's in the dictionary, after the B's; blackmailers; C's; cheaters; D's; dirty dealers; and before the S's; seal beaters, poachers, like the rest, take something illegal, being game and fish.  Outlaws are invading the forests and exploiting the game, bird, fish, and wildlife resources of this country. Organized criminals are dealing in illegal furs, fake bounty scalps, and out-of-season game birds and wildlife.

United States game wardens are stumbling onto cases of shotgun shells and sheep-lined coats, cornering duck poachers.  Federal agents are sweeping up game racketeers and liquor rings by the hundreds, busting the crooked dealers for their bootleg birds transported in high-speed trucks with ice-boxes.  Government agents have traced ducks to the refrigerators of such crooked dealers.

In Alaska and along the Canadian border, illegal beaver trapping is a constant source of trouble.  Beaver in these areas are now nearing extinction, and they are protected by law.  Fur poachers lay their traps at night, and disposing of their catch by stealth, have been reaping a rich harvest of contraband pelts.  A loophole in the law aids the poachers.  The beavers, in felling trees and damming streams do considerable damage.  Most of the states which have passed the beaver laws have also passed legislation which allows their state game commissions to issue permits for trapping the beaver where they are causing damage.  On such permits, obtained under false testimony, fur bootleggers and their agents are trapping large numbers of the beavers during closed seasons.  Attempts to smuggle beaver pelts into the United States from closed season areas in Alaska have been exposed at ports along the Pacific coast.  The pelts are hidden under shiploads of dried fish, and cunningly secreted behind false bulkheads in the hold of a vessel.

Scientific detective work has uncovered an "underground railroad" operated by fur poachers.  This gang of outlaw trapper poachers had worked out a system of slipping the pelts across the Canadian line, putting bogus brands upon them, and sending them back to New York and St. Louis as Canadian furs.  The law then required Canadian furs, every beaver pelt, shipped from a Canadian province, to carry a special brand.

Experts use high-powered microscopes, comparing the perforations of the real and the bogus brands.  The special brand is formed by tiny perforations produced by an apparatus similar to a check protector.  Small differences, visible only to the eye of the magnifying lens, gives testimony that break up the "fake brand" method of marketing the furs. 

Change in the Canadian laws now requires that all beaver pelts shipped to the United States must carry consular certificates identifying them as genuine Canadian furs.

Outlaw poachers are preying on fur farmers by tossing poisoned bait into dens of foxes, and then they cut their way into the enclosures and carry off the animals as soon as they die. These poachers have drugged female foxes and taken them alive to be sold for breeding purposes.

Bounty faking is another illegal activity of these fur criminals.  In many parts, a bounty is paid for the scalps of predatory animals such as wolves, wildcats, coyotes, and mountain lions which prey upon livestock and poultry.  In collusion with unscrupulous fur dealers who supply synthetic coyote scalps, the criminals are reaping huge profits.  In many cases, they have substitued dog scalps for coyote scalps.

Because there is no standardization bounty payments, each state sets its own price.  Outlaw fur trappers are then able to defraud the government in another way by trapping the predatory animals in states where they are abundant and where the bounty is low.  Then they smuggle the scalps into states where the bounty is high and the animals few.  This crooked dealing makes the work of the bounty bootlegger easy.

Federal agents and game wardens checking on movements of one such bounty bootlegger discovered his cache of scalps were hidden where he thought no one would ever find them.  The scalps were found in the pulpit of a parsonage of a country church. 

Blackmailers, cheaters, dirty dealers, seal beaters and poachers of the open are exploiting the life of the country.

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Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy by Sage Sweetwater


Speed for speed.  Read your newspaper. Pumped-up cheaters.  Amphetamines and performance-enhancing drugs, or any substance taken to perform better athletically. This term is referenced often and typically refers to anabolic steroid use in sports by professional and amateur athletes. Other substances are also taken to improve performance, including human growth hormone (HGH).

The use of enhancement substances for sporting events dates back to the ancient Greeks and ancient Maya.  Performance potions were utilized by the Greeks to increase their abilities, and cocoa leaves where thought to be used by the ancient Maya to increase their abilities.  Today, athletes will go to many lengths to increase athletic ability, including steroids, HGH, amphetamines, and even animal or human organs just as the Greeks did in their time.

Most young athletes will tell you that the competitive drive to win can be very intense. Besides the satisfaction of personal gain, young athletes often pursue dreams of making it to the Olympics, a college scholarship or a place on a professional team. This competitive environment, created by our culture, has led to a more common use of steroids and other performance-enhancing agents in sports; ergonomic Aids:  EPO, Diuretics, Central Nervous System stimulants,  Amphetamines

The hormone insulin is the latest weapon for cheat athletes to keep one step ahead of required doping tests. Athletes at world championships in Edmonton have been using it.  Insulin can help build muscles.  Insulin use and abuse among athletes is undetectable.
         
Bodybuilders began using insulin several years ago to build muscle tissue, and it is being widely used in other sports too.  Bodybuilders use insulin alongside anabolic steroids to build muscle.  The steroids help create new muscle and the insulin stops it from being broken down.  Insulin helps the athletes’ stamina by providing them with fuel glycogen which stores carbohydrate energy, by taking insulin and glucose.
         
Insulin is being sold on the blackmarket.  Some diabetics are even tempted to sell their own insulin.


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Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy by Sage Sweetwater


Jefferson Randolph ("Soapy") Smith II (1860-July 8, 1898) was an American con artist and gangster who had a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver, Colorado, Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska from 1879 to 1898.

Soapy Smith began his career as a confidence man. He formed a small, close-knit gang of scoundrels, rogues, shills, and thieves to work for him, and soon became a well known crime boss and leader of one of the most infamous gang of swindlers and deceivers ever assembled.  Soapy moved from town to town, house to house, plying his trade on his unwary victims.

His principal method of separating victims from their cash was the use of short cons, swindles that were quick and needed little setup.  His cons included the shell game, three-card monte, and any game in which he could cheat.

Some time in the late 1870s or early 1880s, Smith began duping entire crowds with a ploy the Denver newspapers dubbed The Prize Package Soap Sell Swindle.  Smith would open his "tripe and keister" (display case on a tripod) on a busy street corner. Piling ordinary soap cakes onto the keister top, he began expounding on their wonders. As he spoke to the growing crowd of curious onlookers, he would pull out his wallet and begin wrapping paper money ranging from one dollar up to one hundred dollars, around a select few of the bars. He then finished each bar by wrapping plain paper around it to hide the money. He mixed the money-wrapped packages in with wrapped bars containing no money. He then sold the soap to the crowd for one dollar a cake. A shill planted in the crowd would buy a bar, tear it open, and loudly proclaim that he had won some money, waving it around for all to see. This performance had the desired effect of enticing the sale of the packages. More often than not, victims bought several bars before the sale was completed. Midway through the sale, Smith would announce that the hundred-dollar bill yet remained in the pile, unpurchased. He then would auction off the remaining soap bars to the highest bidders.

Through manipulation and sleight-of-hand, the cakes of soap wrapped with money were hidden and replaced with packages holding no cash. It was assured that the only money "won" went to members of what became known as the "Soap Gang." Smith quickly became known as "Soapy Smith" all across the western United States.
 
In the mid 1880s Soapy opened the Tivoli Club, on the southeast corner of Market and 17th streets in Denver, Colorado, a saloon and gambling hall. Legend has it that above the entrance was a sign that read "caveat emptor," Latin for Let the buyer beware. It was said that every faro table in the club in 1889 was gaffed (made to cheat). Soapy's younger brother, Bascomb Smith, joined the gang and operated a cigar store that was a front for crooked poker games and other swindles, operating in one of the back rooms.

Nothing more than a front for his cons, he sold discounted railroad tickets to various destinations. Potential purchasers were told that the ticket agent was out of the office, but would soon return, and then offered an even bigger discount by playing any of several rigged games.  Soapy Smith left Denver when Governor Waite began cleaning up Denver and ordered the closure of all gambling dens, saloons and houses of ill repute.

When the Klondike Gold Rush began in 1897, Soapy moved his operations to Skagway, Alaska. He set up his third empire much the same way as he had in Denver and Creede. He put the town's deputy U.S. Marshal on his payroll and began collecting allies for a takeover. Soapy opened a fake telegraph office in which the wires went only as far as the wall. Not only did the telegraph office obtain fees for "sending" messages, but cash-laden victims soon found themselves losing even more money in poker games with new found "friends." Telegraph lines did not reach or leave Skagway until 1901. Soapy opened a saloon named Jeff Smith's Parlor, as an office from which to run his operations. Although Skagway already had a municipal building, Soapy's saloon became known as "the real city hall." Skagway was gaining a reputation as a "hell on earth," full of perils for the unwary. Smith's men played a variety of roles, such as newspaper reporters or crooked clergyman, with the intention of befriending a new arrival and determining the best way to rid him of his money. The new arrival would be steered by his "friends" to crooked shipping companies, hotels, or gambling dens.

On 7 July 1898, John Douglas Stewart, a returning Klondike miner, came to Skagway with a sack of gold valued at $2,700. Three gang members convinced the miner to participate in a game of three-card monte. When Stewart balked at having to pay his losses, the three men grabbed the sack and ran. The "Committee of 101" demanded that Soapy return the gold, but he refused, claiming that Stewart had lost it "fairly". 

Soapy Smith's demise came on the evening of July 8,1898.  Vigilantes organized a meeting on the Juneau Company wharf. With a Winchester rifle draped over his shoulder, Soapy began an argument with Frank Reid, one of four guards blocking his way to the wharf. A gunfight unexpectedly began and both men were fatally wounded.

Soapy's last words were "My God, don't shoot!" Letters from J. M. Tanner, one of the guards with Reid that night, show that another guard fired the fatal shot. Soapy died on the spot with a bullet to the heart. He also received a bullet in his left leg and a severe wound on the left arm by the elbow. Reid died 12 days later with a bullet in his groin and leg. His tombstone bears the epitaph "He died for the honor of Skagway."


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Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy by Sage Sweetwater

Old-day human concepts helped change the course of the human race and I, Sage Sweetwater, as a popular lesbian author, will show how New Age human concepts can change the world as we know it today.  These are hard times for the world's people.  Many different cultures are struggling.  Through my novel Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy, I will show how people helping each other can bring the world back together, and restore the people's faith in humanity.  Through this novel. Sage Sweetwater will start a world wide course for change in both the habitat of humans and animals.  As an older woman, I will share my knowledge and wisdom for a New Age concept for this generation and future generations. 

Young women in their own right, are a part of this world's young generation who must embrace New Age concepts to prosper and survive. Nations must come together in the New Age concept that all of the world's people must have readily available food and medical care.

The 1925 Serum Run to Nome, Alaska, also known as the "Great Race of Mercy," is the most famous event in the history of dog sledding.  A diptheria epidemic broke out in that year and threatened Nome's Inuit Eskimo population, especially the Inuit children.  They had no immunity from the "white man's disease."

Fierce statewide blizzard conditions prevented delivery of the life-saving serum by airplane from Alaska. The nearest quantity of antitoxin was in Anchorage.  Two of the available  planes were dismantled and not to be flown in the harsh winter.  A relay of dog sled teams was organized to deliver the serum. The annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race commemorates this historic event.Governor Scott Bone approved a safer route. The 20-pound (9 kg) cylinder of serum was sent by train 298 miles (480 km) from the southern port of Seward to Nenana, where it was passed just before midnight on January 27 to the first of twenty mushers and more than 100 dogs who relayed the package 674 miles (1,085 km) from Nenana to Nome. The dogs ran in relays, with no dog running over 100 miles (160 km).  The mushers carried the serum from Anchorage to Nome in a remarkable six days.

Sage Sweetwater's character Kay Packer, like all mushers that live in Alaska territories in proximity of Nome, uses her sled dogs for transportation.  She relies heavily upon her sled dogs to deliver insulin to diabetics who depend on her and the dogs.

Nowadays, it’s the epidemic of diabetes.  Kay grew up with sled dogs.  She takes that knowledge on the trail with her when riding her one-of-a-kind dog sled with an awesome rudder, an airfoil.  Kay is savvy enough to straddle two worlds, that of nurse and that of musher.  She’s a young lesbian woman in her twenties who’s found her place in the world.

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Cliff Notes are a summary of a much longer work designed to allow a student to quickly learn the key points of the longer work.

Lesbian Author Sage Sweetwater Makes Available Cliff Notes To College Students For Term Papers, Essays, and Dissertation Writing From Her Lesbian Arctic Adventure Novel Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy

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Creative and intelligent women with influence have always created hostility by far more than praise.  We're talking about authors Sweetwater and Jong.

Erica Jong creates a different historical character of Sappho in her novel, Sappho's Leap.  It is her version of a female historical heroine.  Who did Sappho really love?  Why did she really jump off that cliff?  Jong writes not of Ovid's portrayal of Sappho, who was molded to fit the persona of a lover and artful seducer of young girls - a tragic stereotype of a victim of heterosexual heartbreak who killed herself for a man? Jong testifies that she wrote the novel to correct centuries' worth of fictions about Sappho she finds mocking and unfair.

Sage Sweetwater, like Jong, invents a Sapphic Odyssey as she steers Sweetwater's Run: In the Spirit of Nome's Great Race of Mercy with the power of the dog sled into the realms of the Arctic. Raw passion under the dim light of the seal-oil lamp demonstrate the uniqueness of the this lesbian author Sage Sweetwater.

It is said that Erica Jong's celebrity will never rest on her literary talents. and quote by Joy Connolly who teaches classics and political theory at Stanford University. "This is a book, after all, in which a friendly centaur can revive a languishing maiden with an ''arc of fire'' from its ''enormous'' phallus. But her effort to bring to life an ancient writer engrossed in politics, family and the creation of poetry is a relief from the relentlessly everyday sincerity of much current ''women-oriented'' writing. If only she had confronted the real historical mystery of how Sappho made her way in the violent, male-dominated world of ancient Greece -- such a novel would have done justice to the remarkable woman that Sappho obviously was."

College and University students are often asked to submit book reports, essays, term papers, and dissertation writing for their assignments.  For this reason, and as qualified writers, Sage Sweetwater is making available her Cliff Notes from her research on this novel, as professional assistance with thesis.

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Dominga Rio of Cuero rides out of Custer County on the journey to Publish Hill!

Dominga Rio of Cuero is a brilliant narrative by Sage Sweetwater. superlative lesbian storyteller of our times, bringing this story to her audience through the lesbian western, written in the screenplay version. Dominga Rio of Cuero is endorsed by Hollywood Director Wil Castillo.

Dominga Rio of Cuero offers an engaging story of the author's use of the narrative lesbian fiction genre, exploiting a communal literary form to communicate lesbian, feminist, and female viewpoint, and historical events to make this novel accessible to a larger audience.
 
Redintegrated and brought to new life, Sage Sweetwater uses narrative fiction to voice female experience as well as lesbian themes and concerns.  Sage Sweetwater writes from the 1960s revolutionary feminist era.Fearless, like the rayados who had jagged lines painted on their faces, dispersed the wild horses coming south of Del Rio and Laredo, to Native American tribes, Dominga Rio of Cuero inspires a piece of history! Everything in the universe is connected to the spiritual inner, an invisible force. Synchrodestiny is what lets Sage Sweetwater trust her intellectual and spiritual power. It is the wellspring of intelligence in this lesbian author which accesses a place deep within, a place no one can touch no matter how much they try to trip it up. La reata!  Dominga Rio of Cuero coming in 2009!  Adapted to screen to be a motion picture.