[1] A considerable portion of his academic and written work deals with the genre of science fiction or about the state of Montana.
His first academic book, The Translunar Narrative in the Western Tradition (Ashgate, 2004)[2] examined the dream of traveling to the Moon in literature, culminating in the Apollo Program of the 1960s and early 1970s that achieved the millennia-long vision of leaving Earth.
[7] He serves as president of the Drumlummon Institute,[8] a non-profit whose mission is "to promote and publish art and literatures created in Montana and the broader American West."
A lyric from his song "El Cuchillo" is referenced in leading Steinbeck scholar Bob DeMott's Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs (2014).
He is also co-founder of The Territorial Press, along with master letterpress printer and book artist, Peter Rutledge Koch.