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Phil-American Writer Wins Award for Western Novel

 

 

Dateline: New York 2009

 

Philippine-born American writer, Gilbert M. De Los Reyes, won the Trafford Publishing Grand Prize for his novel, The Legend of Little Man Wolf.  The story is set near the end of the Wild West Era, and is about Jeremiah McCall, a half-Navajo, half Irish orphan who was raised by his Navajo grandparents and educated by a former gunfighter-turned priest.

 

 

He could shoot the farthest arrow, outwrestle the strongest warriors, and run the farthest distance on foot.  It was said that he could sail with the wind, and go farther than tumbleweed. Stories were told that he could shoot any thing dead center with his eyes closed by just listening to the swirling of the wind around his target.

 

He walked on the side of the law. At the age of eight, he killed in self-defense with a tomahawk an enemy Ute warrior, thus earning his warrior name of Little Man Wolf.  At the age of fourteen, he killed 15 Mexican bandits when he rode with the band of Chief Manuelito to chase two hundred bandits who had raided a Navajo village and captured women for slavery. At the age of sixteen, he went on a quest to hunt down the last seven surviving men who had killed his parents when he was still a boy. Just slightly over four feet tall, Little Man Wolf was the fastest, more feared gunfighter who ever lived.

 

 

The novel is filled with Navajo folklore, and historical facts about the heroes and villains of the wild days of the west, from Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Bat Masterson, and Apache Chiefs Victorio and Geronimo.  The story also includes real incidents about the 10th U.S. Cavalry, the Black military known as Buffalo Soldiers who fought the Apaches, and later went to the Philippines to chase General Emilio Aguinaldo all over the mountain province.

 

The Legend of Little Man Wolf  is available worldwide in paperback at $16.89 through Amazon.com, Abebooks.com,Target.com, and directly

with the publisher, Trafford.com/08-1061.

 

Gilbert M. De Los Reyes, a long-time resident of New York City, is a graduate of University of the Philippines and The New York University Graduate School of Business. He was a student of the famous Philippine writer, Francisco Arcellana, and a protégé of internationally known writer, F. Sionil Jose. He worked as the first copywriter of the then newly formed Philippine advertising agency of Javier Romero, famous advertising man and sportscaster. From there he became the advertising manager of G. A. Machineries, Inc., owned by Vicente Araneta, and reporting to the highly respected marketing man, Anacleto Del Rosario.  Later, he worked as Product Group Manager with the Philippine Refining Company (Subsidiary of Unilever, N.V.), which sent him to their Australian office for advanced course in marketing. Gilbert also taught marketing as Adjunct Professor at the University of the East in Manila.

 

In New York, he worked as Vice-President. Assistant Media Director of Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Agency. Later, on Wall Street, as stockbroker with Prudential Securities.  He has written several investment articles, continuing education courses for the securities industry, and a financial management course for online graduate school of business. He had also written several articles on Wing Chun, the Chinese martial art made famous by the late Bruce Lee. He is currently Chairman of Goldsmith Mellon DeLosReyes, Inc., Registered Investment Advisers, and chief writer of  http:www.scriptoromnigeni.com

 

 

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