Edward Louis Henry (a.k.a. Poredevil) has been a working cowhand, saddle bronc rodeo contestant and Wild West performer, WWII Infantry sergeant, newspaper reporter, U.S. Foreign Service officer, executive speechwriter, plus working 30 years in advertising as a copywriter and executive. A lifelong horseman and outdoorsman, Henry is active in mountain man rendezvous, where he is known by his mountain man moniker Poredevil. Western history is his abiding passion. His extensive research and an active lifetime of rich personal experience lend his novels a vibrant air of authenticity. Henry is a member of Western Writers of America and is the author of the Temple Buck Quartet and Poredevil's Beaver Tales, a collection of humorous mountain man tall stories in verse. He lives in Bozeman, Montana with his wife Gloria.