About the Author:
THE AUTHOR Gladys Iris Crouch Clark was born December 30, 1895 on the claim her father won in the 1893 Cherokee Strip Race near Alva, Oklahoma, the third of eleven children of Jim Crouch and Lizzie Bevis Crouch. The stories in Long Line Rider of growing up in a pioneer family on a homestead in Oklahoma Territory are those told to her by her father and other family members, and her own recollections. The author first attended Northwest Normal School, Alva, Oklahoma while working in her father¢s restaurant. In 1912 she was sent to Wichita, Kansas to attend Mt. Carmel Academy. After returning home, and refusing to work in the restaurant, she took the Santa Fe train from Alva to Kansas City, Missouri, to stay with her Aunt Vena. On the train, she met and later married the man of her dreams, Charles Henry Clark. In 1920 the couple moved to Hollywood, California, where Charles Clark practiced law for twenty-two years. The Clarks left Hollywood in 1941 for the life of ranchers on their 360-acre ranch in San Diego County, California. Over the years their growing curiosity and thirst for archaeological knowledge led them in search of antiquities and archaeological sites on five continents. Her articles on their journeys were published in several magazines and earned her a Eugene Field award for her article on the Andes of South America. In 1936, Paramahansa Yogananda, the great East Indian spiritual leader initiated Iris, (as she preferred to be called). She developed a deep and knowledgeable interest in comparative religions. After her husband died in 1977, she moved to Sedona, Arizona to began her in-depth study in classes taught by Lehman Hisey on "The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch." by Dr. J. J. Hurtak. When Mr. Hisey retired, Dr. Hurtak appointed her to teach and write on the "Keys," culminating in her book, "Forever Young," published in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1987 with a second edition published in 1990 in Sedona, Arizona. This remarkable woman, still full of love and laughter, died at 103 1/2 in July of 1999.
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