Gerald Luttmann

As an International Selling Author my following books are published in both paperback and Kindle editions for your reading pleasure and have sold internationally in fourteen countries.

➤ 2026 Silent Wounds: Understanding Teen Bullying and Suicide

Using real life situations, the author writes about bullying on school campuses with statistics and in particular the death of Hope Witsell who was bullied. Due to the harassment, she ended her life. How to combat bullies and what parents and schools need to know. Helping your child through troubled times at school.

➤ 2026 The Little Appalachian Trail Explorers

A great and FUN children's adventure story for bedtime or anytime for young children and tykes alike! Come follow Duke and KIra as they hike with their grandfather on the Appalachian Trail. Duke and Kira wander away from their grandfather and become lost. Will they find their grandfather or will he find them? A great bedtime story full of love and family bonding!

➤ 2026 The Crédit Mobilier Scandal: The Union Pacific Railroad Scandal

The transcontinental railroad, one question rarely gets asked: who made the real fortune, those who ran the trains, or those who built the track? The Crédit Mobilier Scandal reveals how a celebrated national achievement became one of the most infamous corruption stories of the Gilded Age. From the Pacific Railroad Acts and their sweeping federal loans and land grants to the insider creation of Crédit Mobilier of America, Gerald Luttmann traces how Union Pacific leaders and allies turned construction contracts into a private dividend machine. By steering work to a contractor, they controlled, inflating invoices, and quietly offering discounted shares to influential lawmakers, the architects of the scheme built political insurance into the balance sheet.

➤ 2026 "The Rise and Fall of The Rise, Fall and Return of the American Bison"

Survival, Symbolism, and the Making of a Nation tells the full story of an animal that once defined a continent and still reflects the deepest tensions in American history regarding exploitation. More than a natural history, the book uses the bison as a lens through which to examine ecology, Indigenous sovereignty, industrial expansion, conservation, and the ethical choices that continue to shape the land for the bison to survive in an ever-shrinking natural landscape that the bison can only become used to.

➤ 2026 "What Are the Odds?

A Book on Horse Racing in Simplicity for New Beginners"

Horse racing can feel intimidating to newcomers. "What Are the Odds?" strips away the confusion and invites you inside the world of Thoroughbred racing with clear explanations, real‑life experience, and no‑nonsense guidance. Written specifically for beginners, this book walks you hand in hand through the racetrack experience. From the moment you step inside of a track until you leave. This book explains EVERYTHING in very simplistic easy to understand terms for novices everywhere.

➤ 2025 "Predators of Paradise Dangerous Wildlife Lurking in Florida

What Tourists and Newcomers Need to Know"

Florida’s natural predators don’t distinguish between private property and public property lines, or who owns what. Moving to Florida means stepping into a world where paradise and dangerous perils coexist. So, on your arrival in Florida, be careful of your surroundings in the wild backcountry, even when visiting within cities. This book is your essential guide to understanding, respecting, and surviving the Sunshine State’s most notorious wildlife. From the silent menace of alligators in backyard ponds, and even swimming pools, to the stealthy crocodiles patrolling coastal waters, readers will discover the habits, habitats, and histories of Florida’s most apex water predators, who are on the prowl.

➤ 2025 “Recollections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker”

The Author’s recollections of hiking the Appalachian Trail and the extremely close-knit bonds that form with people met on the trail, and the subsequent family type relationships that develop amongst hikers. How hikers bond, help and support each other in the middle of nowhere in time of need, thus, becoming a family type unit on the Appalachian Trail, known in hiker lingo as “TRamily.”

➤ 2025 "Education, Parenting, and the Making of a Troubled Generation; From Discipline to Disorder"

Violence, crime, behavioral issues, problematic children, teacher frustration, governmental interference, technology, social media, ridiculously low wages, all coupled with extremely poor parenting. Why is our American educational system failing on every level? I have written about the many facets of life's issues involving education, behavior, parenting, crime, the police, and the courts amongst many other topics.

➤ 2024 "The Appalachian Trail Dirt Under My Boots (and everywhere else)"

My 2,190-mile attempted thru-hike on The APPALACHIAN TRAIL starting in 2017. Read about my many failures, gear, the history of the A.T., and a series of unfortunate turn of events along the way, year after year, in an attempt to finish the Appalachian Trail.

➤ 2025 "Hiking Cades Cove and The Appalachian Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains"

As a long-distance hiker, think 1,000s of miles, I have been infatuated with the Great Smoky Mountains, Cades Cove, and the Appalachian Trail that winds its way through the center ridgeline of the Smoky Mountains, from park boundary to park boundary. Come hike with me as I live in a tent, or shelter, deep within the backcountry of the Smokies. From hiking into the deep backcountry of the mountain ranges to the beautiful peaceful setting of Cades Cove. Come along with me on my hiking adventures within the Smoky Mountains tenting in all inclement types of weather, heat, rain and snow.

➤ 2017 "Schools Out of Control"

Regarding the FAILED U.S. educational system, and how it has TOTALLY failed children today. This book encompasses the ENTIRE realm of education, its pitfalls and failures, on EVERY grade level. At home it doesn't fare any better either, with the out-of-control children seen today. A MUST READ for any person within the educational system as a teacher, administrator, social worker, guidance counselor, or School Resource Officer, or parents that they are not alone with regard to the disrespect, abuse, and crime levels seen in today's children, both on and off campus.

➤ 2024 "Canoeing and Portaging the Boundary Waters Wilderness"

The Boundary Waters, located in northwestern Minnesota, west of Lake Superior, is quite often referred to as "Canoe Country." Today, there are still no roads through the heartland of The Boundary Waters. The only way into the deep forests is by dirt roads that lead to lake entry points, or by aircraft to certain lakes within. Gas powered boats are mostly forbidden on The Boundary Waters save very few. There is plenty of fishing, camping, and hiking. Portaging your canoe/gear is the only way to go from lake to lake. Lots, and lots of portaging. Pristine lakes, fast fading ancient Indian pictographs, wolves, virgin forests, bears, and much more.

➤ 2025 Leave No Trace: Vanishing Within the Great Smoky Mountains: Dennis Lloyd Martin Trenny Gibson

What happened to Dennis Martin and Trenny Gibson? The author, a retired law enforcement veteran with 32 years of investigative experience and an avid long-distance hiker, meticulously examines both cases. Dennis vanished in 1969 during a family outing along the Appalachian Trail/Spence Field area, while Trenny disappeared seven years later in 1976, from the Forney Ridge Trail during a school field trip. Despite extensive searches, neither have been found, and their fates remain unknown. Drawing on his extensive hiking and investigative background, the author analyzes factual reports from Great Smoky Mountain Rangers, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies, to arrive at and offer plausible explanations for their disappearances. What happened to Dennis and Trenny?

➤ 2025 Among Predators; The Lives of Grizzly and Black Bears: How to Stay Safe Hiking, Camping, or Living in Bear Territory

You're with your family hiking on a waterfall trail when suddenly, out of the bushes, a bear walks onto the trail in front of you and your family, maybe with cubs in tow. What do you do? Run away? Try to walk by the bear? Stop and take pictures? This book explores bear behavior and the natural instincts that can mean life or death. Bears have mainly two modes, predatory and defensive. What do you do? With real life situations documented, the author with years of long-distance experience hiking and living in a tent in the mountains and forests.

➤ 2024 Andersonville; A Surviving Civil War Soldier’s Day by Day Diary While Imprisoned: Civil War Rebel Prisons, Libby and Belle Isle

Opened in February 1864, its original name was Camp Sumter, now known in Civil War history as Andersonville Prison. Commanded by Captain Henry Wirz, who was eventually found guilty of the extremely poor and harsh conditions in the camp, which led to over 13,000 prisoners dying. Far too many prisoners suffered from severe malnutrition and disease, while some were outright murdered by fellow prisoners.