"Ask anyone who knew Marshal Vernon Eggers, Cochilla
Township, Arizona Territory -- he'll tell you Vernon Eggers'
word was always good. Still is, too . . . ," the narrator of
American Spirit assures us, his story so troubling it has
haunted him for almost fifty years.

An Everyman story, a mystery (you be the judge of what really
happened) and a love story, American Spirit extols the moral
victory of one man, Mort Lewis, brought to trial in 1878 on the
American Fontier for a capital crime he didn't know wether he committed or not.The Author, John Janda
B.A., M.A., Univ. of Arizona
Doctoral canidate
Univ. of California, Irvine.

Cover Art by Lucas Novak
Line art by Lucas Novak of Marshal
Vernon Eggers, above.