Terrance E Whitright's East Of Daybreak

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Terrance E. Whitright, preferred pen name of Terrance Youngblood. An unpublished author of a 2 part historical fiction entitled “East of Daybreak” and a multitude of poems. Terrance was born in 1938 and died in 2008. He’s written many novel length stories, short stories and poems that he lost along the course of his life, moving here and there. In 2000 he began to rewrite all the stories he lost the accumulated into his book and his poems. He died with an unpublished 725 page work of art and numerous poems about his wife of 45 years, nature and the culture he was so immensely proud of. “East of Daybreak” is a historical fiction, which is an oxymoron, yes but the historical part is about the “real American Indian cultural heritage and issues

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