Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Arthur Roy Mitchell ... was king of western pulp magazine cover artists, and a meticulous historian and preservationist, but beyond all this he stood out as a colorful character. ... [His] critiquing of [students] work leaned toward the negative side with only an occasional "not too damn bad," which was an ultimate in "Mitch-praise," and enough to send a students ego soaring. ... "The artists purpose," [said Mitchell] "is not to reconstruct nature,...

As a teenager, Vickie Preston survived an attack by a serial killer. That was the first time she saw a ghost. Now the city of Boston is being terrorized-someone is kidnapping women and burying them alive, but cruelly leaving a glimmer of hope for the authorities by sending a clue about their location.