Harvey Goodman’s ‘Along the Fortune Trail’ has been awarded the Runner-Up prize from the “Genre” classification at the 2010 Hollywood Book Festival www.hollywoodbookfestival.com.
Goodman’s story, an American Western occurring within the Colorado/New Mexico territories in 1870-71, tracks the particular journeys involving a youthful cowboy, Sammy Winds, who stumbles across the chance of a lifetime following an improbable meeting with a killer outlaw presents Winds with the opportunity to gain a fortune. However in order to get hold of it, he has to accomplish a five-hundred mile quest which challenges all of his abilities along with forever altering his life.
This is Goodman’s very first book and second honor; he additionally put up a top-five finisher previously this year with “Honorable Mention” in the “Fiction” classification of the 2009 Los Angeles Book Festival.
About Harvey Goodman
Harvey Goodman was raised in Los Angeles and went to the University of Colorado where he majored in history and formulated a love pertaining to traditional western literary works as well as the great outdoors. He frequented and also worked in several of the west’s most far reaching destinations in the course of his years operating an oilfield vessel-buildings operation. Mr Goodman continued on to teach history and coach football, ultimately turning out to be a high school principal, and then superintendent of schools.
Mr. Goodman stood out as an athlete, and was rcognized as the MVP of the University of Colorado football team in his senior year season. He was also picked as the starting guard for The Senior Bowl, The Coaches All-America Game, and The East-West Shrine Game. He was then drafted by the St. Louis Football Cardinals and played in thirty-two NFL games, which included a year, the 1976 season, playing for the Denver Broncos.
Harvey along with his wife, Gabrielle, have three sons, Matthew, Brian, and Sean. Each of the boys have served, or are presently serving in the United States Army. Matthew and Sean already have concluded deployments in Iraq, and the whole Goodman household proceeds to pray for the basic safety, achievement, as well as well-being involving all our service men and women along with their own families.
Mr. Goodman resides in Westcliffe, Colorado. This is his very first novel.
