- Internment
- Welcome to the South
- Settlers Grove of Ancient Cedars, A Step Back in Time
- War No More
- Cruising the Snake
I was born in 1937 on the eve of World War II in Southern California. My early memories are of rationing, blackouts, and the constant drum of war. After the war, my family moved north, and I grew up on a cattle ranch in the Wallowa Mountains of Northeast Oregon. When my turn came, I joined the Navy and wrote patterns in the sky as a naval aviator, followed by technical stuff as part of the aerospace and corporate world. My resume also includes ranching, land development, construction, and restaurant and nightclub ownership. I have traveled the west, dragging travel trailers as far north as Fort St. John, British Columbia, south to Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, and east to Edmonton, Alberta, and Corpus Christi, Texas, interviewing the people I met along the way. Now retired, I write newsletters for my local history club, local writers league, my branch of an international aviation society, and an occasional letter to the editor expressing my iconoclastic views. When I am not writing, I can be found enjoying the great outdoors surrounding my home in North Idaho. At age eighty-eight, I think I have earned that privilege.
I have recently published my first full-length novel, now available on Amazon Kindle: https://a.co/d/dECNc76.
From the jungles of Guadalcanal to the bloody beaches of Okinawa, Paul Harper learns the hard lessons of war. Now safely home in Otis Orchards, Washington, with his companions Malaria and nightmares, he’s just trying really hard to adjust. A reunion with family and friends, and even Mom’s home cooking, does little to assuage the demons assailing him. Rebuilding a family-owned Idaho ranch that has fallen into disrepair provides both challenge and salvation for Paul’s war-torn spirit.
Born at the cusp of World War II, Robert LaRue watched as his generation’s parents, aunts, uncles, and friends shipped off to unknown lands and returned carrying the painful scars of war. He watched as these veterans adjusted to an ever-changing way of life and created the free world we were all to inherit. This novel is dedicated to those brave souls we now call “The Greatest Generation,” lest we forget.
Check it out: $3.99 or free to Kindle readers for the e-book, paperback coming soon.
The Idaho Panhandle Storyteller,
Bob LaRue
