About The Author

George “Ole Smoky Lonesome” Sandul is a full-blooded Ukrainian, born on December 25, 1940 in Northern Minnesota. At age eighteen, he left home to work as a topographer/mapmaker with the U.S. Geological Survey. Over the next twenty-four years, he lived in nineteen different states in seventy different towns. In austral summer 1985–86, the author worked in Antarctica on a mapping assignment in the Transantarctic Mountains. Sandul has been a writer in one capacity or another for most of his adult life, including newspaper articles and esoteric stories in a USGS newsletter.