Captured: From the Frontier Diary of Infant Danny Duly

Captured is offbeat (but young Danny is quite "on" with his observations) historical fiction whose cast of characters includes Chief Red Cloud, Colonel Henry Carrington and Captain William Fetterman.

Libbie Duly, pregnant and with her husband residing in the local insane asylum, leaves Chicago in 1866 for booming Virginia City, Montana Territory. On the Oregon Trail she gives birth to the remarkable Danny Duly, who already began narrating this emigrant tale from the womb. Danny has the rare ability to see with his mind's eye and record events that he can later put down on paper. Along the dangerous Bozeman Trail, Libbie and son fall into the hands of Sioux warrior Wolf Who Don't Dance,and the emigrant story becomes a captivating captivity narrative.

Greg Lalire majored in history at the University of New Mexico and was a newspaperman in New Mexico, Montana, New York and Virginia for sixteen years. The Red Sweater, his children's book set in the Rockies, was published in 1982. In 1988 he became copy editor and staff writer for ten history magazines published in Leesburg, Virginia. His article "Custer's Art Stand" in the April 1994 Wild West magazine was a Western Wrtiters of America (WWA) Spur Finalist. Since 1995 he has been the editor of Wild West which chronicles frontier history and is part of the Weider History Group. He is a member of both the WWA and the Wild West History Association. Much of his spare time is spent writing fiction.