17 Published BooksRed Johnson
Novelist Red Johnson grew up at Donner Lake, in the high Sierra, before its discovery by millions as California's great vacation escape. Some of his writings are fiction, but his family's western roots are not. They include a Montana rancher, a Tipton, Iowa blacksmith, and a gunfighter whose name was not spoken in the family for fifty years. His gun was for hire to the highest bidder. Reds great-grandfather, Burtis H Rumsey, fought in the civil war under General Sherman from 1861 to 1865...from Shilo to Georgia to N. Carolina. Honorablly discharged a hero. Like many he headed to the silver & gold fields in Virginia City, Nevada.
Red lives with his wife, MaeBeth, in California.
