MATTHEW BLAINE enjoys swapping stories with interesting people with their own stories to tell, especially around campfires. Although his education was hampered by dyslexia, he got another sort of education in the company of Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Louis L’Amour, John Steinbeck, and, when he could get them, men’s adventure magazines. After stints as a cab driver, steelworker, factory floor assembler, and carpenter, he worked for thirty years managing trade shows on the East Coast. During the pandemic, he wrote two self-published memoirs about his travel and outdoor adventures. That triggered an ambition to write honest fiction in which he could reinvent himself in the lives of historical fictional characters. An avid primitive archer, canoeist, long-distance hiker, minimalist and unionist, Matthew travels with an eye for the obscure stories of the past.
Retired, he lives in a rural Pennsylvania county, haunting flea markets for goods to trade with fellow outdoorsmen at swaps and archery rendezvous. In a shop inside his woods, he practices the skills required for leather working, shaping and fletching primitive arrows, and marrying old ax heads with newly-fashioned handles.
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Matthew Blaine
Fidelity3 reviews$11.95A Story of the Revolutionary War The Young Fron...A Story of the Revolutionary War The Young Frontiersman Book 1 It is 1777, early in the Revolutionary War, when fleet young Barnabas Locke runs against an hourglass to become a courier in Captain W... -
Matthew Blaine
Allegiance4 reviews$11.95A Story of the Ohio Country The Young Frontiers...A Story of the Ohio Country The Young Frontiersman Book 2 War-seasoned young Barnabas Locke arrives at Harris’s Ferry, where he does business with John Harris II, as a trader of goods going into th... -
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Identity1 review$11.95A Story of the West Among the Tribes The Young ...A Story of the West Among the Tribes The Young Frontiersman Book 4 Young Revolutionary War veteran Barnabas Locke makes winter camp in an isolated canyon in the Colorado wilderness, finding pictogr... -
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Alliance2 reviews$11.95A Story of the Great Plains The Young Frontiers...A Story of the Great Plains The Young Frontiersman Book 3 In spring 1782, young Revolutionary War veteran Barnabas Locke and his Abenaki friend, the visionary Squando, reunite to cross the Mississi...