Bones on the Severs Ranch

About the Book

In this historical novel, Clay, an intern journalist from D. C., spends the summer with his grandparents, Bones and Katie, at the Severs Ranch in the new Sooner State. He falls in love with the beautiful and rich gun slinging cowgirl, Annabelle. But Diego stands in the way.

He soon meets up with colorful persons like Choctaw and his democratic talking donkey, Balaam; Jake and his companion, Hog Dog; Dub, an oil well driller from Texas; Patrick, the Irish singing cowboy and most significantly, Captain Severs who owns the Severs Ranch and half of Okmulgee and Muskogee and who is building a hotel in Muskogee. Then, there are Harry, Marvin and Bill, mischievous boys and Annabelle’s friends, Kathryn and K-Louise.

He seeks answers! Did the U. S. Government have a genocide policy with the vanishing American Indians? How did General Custer plan to become America’s nineteenth president? Did his father die in van in the Spanish-American War? What was the secret healing power of the wild mustangs? What did his grandparents learn the last third of their life that they didn’t know the first two thirds of their lives?

Clay discovers a treasure map. He keeps the secret to himself but comes up with a plan to share it, hoping his cowboy friends will discover where it is buried. Do they find it? Will Harry save the life of K-Louise who is threatened by Diego who holds a knife at her throat, with his sling shot? Will Clay win the hand of Annabelle? Will her two friends, Kathryn and K-Louise find their true loves? Wonder what happens to the old folk, Bones and Katie?

About the Author

If the adage Writing chooses writers is correct, Will Crews became an author by request. Many articles were requested concerning young people. One fifth grade teacher suggested historical novels with a young person in it. They could be entertained while learning history. The response from students and teachers exceeded his expectation.

He is a native Oklahoman and is the oldest son, third in a family of six children. They lived on the old inactive Severs Ranch near Bald Hill, where his father pumped the oil wells. They grew up in the thirties where they raced ponies, played cowboys and Indians around the old ranch house and log barns. At night their mother, part Cherokee Indian, fired their imaginations with heroes and sang to them with her guitar.

He earned a BA degree at Oklahoma Baptist University and other degrees, including a doctorate at Southwestern and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminaries. He holds a Masters in Social Work at the University of Kansas.

He spent several years working with Native Americans, including teaching of children on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. He served at the national level as Juvenile Rehabilitation Director for a mission board and finished his professional career as a psychotherapist at a Community Mental Health Center. Upon retiring he launched his fourth career, Writing!

Crews believes that one of the best ways to teach JudeoChristian values and concepts is through stories with a historical setting.

He married to Norma Conley of Wellston, Oklahoma. They have thee children, eleven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. His hobbies are writing, reading and travel. He and his wife live in Tucker, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.