Patrick Shannon

• Mar-2025

Jenny Peterson drives off into the night, fleeing from her violent husband.  But halfway into the sparsely inhabited expanse of Montana's Paradise Valley, her car's engine dies.  On the verge of despair, she spots a dirt road leading up int...

• Sep-2023

The Price of Glory is the story of a noble mission, conceived by the man who vowed to see it through to completion.  His name was Robert La Salle.His goal was to establish a French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi river and then claim the ...

• Jul-2014

In the year 1700, a young French Army Captain sets foot on the Gulf Coast of our continent, trudges off into the wilderness and becomes one of this country's overlooked Founding Fathers. Warrior, explorer, intimate friend of the Indian nations, impri...

• Apr-2013

 Recipient of a Readers' Favorite Silver Medal and a Reader Views Second Place award.
Viva Laughter! is a work of delicious satire, concocted with a dash of Mark Twain, a tablespoon of Jonathan Swift, a cupful of O. Henry and a gallon of Mel Bro...

• May-2010

Letters From Wheatfield - Second Edition. All the original stories plus twenty new zany reports on life in Wheatfield, Montana. What do you do for fun if you live in a small town, dauntingly far from the nearest city's amusements? Upon what resources...

• Apr-2009

Nearly true tales of a really cool parrot "Viva Cisco" is a trilogy of funny stories for kids at the Age 10-13 reading level. All three tales unfold in a land called Topopootl, which lies in a hidden valley deep in the heart of Mexico. Because of its...