ECHOES OF OUR ANCESTORS:
The Secret Game
A new novel by Jim Redwine
Jim Redwine has announced book signings of his most recent book, ECHOES OF OUR ANCESTORS: The Secret Game, December 6, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Alexandrian Public Library in Mt. Vernon and during parts of both days of the Christmas in New Harmony Artisan Market the weekend of December 6 and 7. Jim will also be available to personally autograph copies on December 13, 2014 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Barnes and Noble Bookstore on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Green River Road in Evansville, Indiana.
Jim’s new novel tells the exciting story of a long hidden but important football game that occurred between representatives of Haskell Indian Institute (now the Haskell Indian Nations University) and professionals from the then Kansas City Cowboys in 1924 at a secret location on the Osage Indian Nation near Pawhuska, Oklahoma where Jim was born.
The book is based upon events that actually occurred. Famous persons such as, John “Big Skee†Levi, Osage Chief Fred Lookout, Jim Thorpe, “The Wild Horse of the Osage†Pepper Martin, Deputy U.S. Marshall Frank “Pistol Pete†Eaton and an assortment of grifters, gamblers and con men including Pretty Boy Floyd, Titanic Thompson, Hubert “Daddy Warbucks†Cokes and Arnold Rothstein were involved.
“Haskell Indian Institute used the game to solicit contributions to build a new football stadium while others saw the game as an opportunity to get rich. $200,000 was bet on the game, then the whole matter was hidden from the scrutiny of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the nascent National Football League,†Redwine said in a recent interview.
Jim Redwine is a graduate of Pawhuska High School, Indiana University, I.U. School of Law and the Indiana Judges College. He has served as a Posey County, Indiana judge since 1981. He writes a regular weekly column, “Gavel Gamut†for four area newspapers in Indiana and Illinois. Jim is also a member of the faculty of the National Judicial College for whom he has taught hundreds of judges from Palestine, Ukraine, Russia, Jordan, Bahrain and America. He lives at JPeg Ranch in rural Posey County, Indiana. He and his wife, Peg, have three grown children, seven grandchildren, a dog and a cat.
