About the Author
Nedler Palaz is a pen name chosen by the author Nellie Pallagi to reflect her historical western fiction novel series “The Checker Board”.
Nellie has led an active life, with a thirty-seven-year business career as a commercial property underwriter. She held a fifty-year membership in POWERtalk International, a non-profit organization of public speaking clubs. Currently she volunteers as a mentor to a class of beginning authors.
After working on her manuscripts since the 1950’s, she decided to plunge into getting them published. Beginning her fiction series in 1879 Texas, major character Dave Smith moves through various life changing crises until at last he settles in Wyoming to establish his cattle ranch and thoroughbred horse breeding operation. Smith’s contribution to Wyoming is reflected by his loving wife Lucy, his family of six children, and many other characters, both good and bad, who move through the novels within the Checker Board Series.
Book Eleven, Justice Dominates, concludes the entire overarching drama of the Smith clan, his partners, and the historical characters who move along within the stories.
Ms. Pallagi brings real history into each of her novels, allowing the reader to appreciate how famous people/events bring about so much change in the west. Major characters are introduced from Native American culture. In fact, one Cheyenne tribe calls Dave ‘their uncle’. Important fictional events shift through various chapters, such as herding a large bison herd through Wyoming, with the result of reestablishing the buffalo for the Indian tribal survival. In other instances, even Teddy Roosevelt shows up to assist in the first introduction of bison into Yellowstone Park. Many times, Dave Smith deals with reprobates of the vicious type, and the lone wolf individual. When Smith involves himself with an outlaw such as Butch Cassiday, his own position of District Judge comes into jeopardy.
The dynamics within each novel contribute to the understanding of the difficulties faced by all the main characters. All these encounters lead up to the growth of law and order in Wyoming.
Nellie has led an active life, with a thirty-seven-year business career as a commercial property underwriter. She held a fifty-year membership in POWERtalk International, a non-profit organization of public speaking clubs. Currently she volunteers as a mentor to a class of beginning authors.
After working on her manuscripts since the 1950’s, she decided to plunge into getting them published. Beginning her fiction series in 1879 Texas, major character Dave Smith moves through various life changing crises until at last he settles in Wyoming to establish his cattle ranch and thoroughbred horse breeding operation. Smith’s contribution to Wyoming is reflected by his loving wife Lucy, his family of six children, and many other characters, both good and bad, who move through the novels within the Checker Board Series.
Book Eleven, Justice Dominates, concludes the entire overarching drama of the Smith clan, his partners, and the historical characters who move along within the stories.
Ms. Pallagi brings real history into each of her novels, allowing the reader to appreciate how famous people/events bring about so much change in the west. Major characters are introduced from Native American culture. In fact, one Cheyenne tribe calls Dave ‘their uncle’. Important fictional events shift through various chapters, such as herding a large bison herd through Wyoming, with the result of reestablishing the buffalo for the Indian tribal survival. In other instances, even Teddy Roosevelt shows up to assist in the first introduction of bison into Yellowstone Park. Many times, Dave Smith deals with reprobates of the vicious type, and the lone wolf individual. When Smith involves himself with an outlaw such as Butch Cassiday, his own position of District Judge comes into jeopardy.
The dynamics within each novel contribute to the understanding of the difficulties faced by all the main characters. All these encounters lead up to the growth of law and order in Wyoming.