Saturday, September 5, 2026

James Hufferd, U of MN-Duluth Ph.D. geography 1979, activist author! his last "historical novel" published by Trineday

 Interview with James Hufferd on Citizens 9/11

Longtime Wyomingite and sometime Westerner, JAMES HUFFERD is a versatile author, activist, humorist, explorer, novelist, historian, and retired college teacher with roots in the Midwest (Iowa). He has worked, studied, and found inspiration in seven states and abroad and traveled widely from Canada's Arctic Islands in winter to Patagonia to Morocco and twice been a Pesquisador (Researcher) Visitante at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....Adel, Iowa was his hometown up till his passing at age 74, living off a meager Social security check...

The Majoritarian Solution: Re-establishing America's Purpose


The Majoritarian Solution finds the common root of America's recent lack of participatory spirit, productivity, and economic competitiveness in a now-little-known but well-documented procedural gap, having to do with the selection of top leadership in the 1787 Constitution of the United States. This book describes the problem, places it in historic and comparative perspective, and proposes a way in which the nation's flagging democratic resolve can be re-kindled. The alleged enormous benefit of a more widely representative and accountable U.S. foreign policy is, in particular, highlighted. Contents: Introduction: The Argument Raised; America: The Balanced System, On Paper; America: The New Corporatist State; Societies and Natural History; The Soviet Experiment: A Double Bind; The International Relations Level; Regaining Our Balance.
 
This is a valuable insightful book in frightening time.>>>> (Gerry Spence The Des Moines Register)
ll be searching through old newspapers of the time and talking to local historians in and around Newcastle, WY, at the end of this month. I need accurate information from Pine Ridge relevant to the event, concerning the following individuals: Eagle Feather (aka Charley Smith), William Brown, Black Kettle, any other participants in the incident, Jack Red Cloud, any influence of Chief Red Cloud on the younger men, Hi. 10th Street

 

https://www.lakotatimes.com/articles/letter-to-the-editor-320/ 

 

The Bells of Autumn



In 1903, a small western town--Newcastle, Wyoming--struggles to overcome its remembered violent past of Indian wars and fighting outlaws and enter the new, modern 20th century. Arrayed against this good intent is the fresh reality of vigilante action and a lynching triggered by a gruesome murder and a distrust of civil justice, and ultimately, the final consequential Battle of Lightning Creek. That lesser-known skirmish flared in November of that fateful year as a surprising encore on Wyoming soil pitting townspeople stirred up by a hectoring town father against young Sioux from the Pine Ridge Reservation on a sanctioned fall hunt. Based largely on actual incidents, the events in this book are viewed through the eyes of a precocious adolescent and his adoptive father who, the son of the army's contracted storekeeper at Fort Laramie before the destruction of the buffalo, and partly raised and acculturated by Indians, is the local pariah.

Colonel Crystal's Parallel Universe


Colonel Alva A. Crystal, U.S.A.F. (ret.), argues that ubiquitous overseas intervention by the U.S. military in the past few decades not only stifles American economic competitiveness and viability, but has done far more harm than good to both America’s image and global stability. The result is that the United States is viewed worldwide as the most dangerous country and the leading obstacle to world peace. The troubled Col. Alva Crystal desperately heralds a return to the defense-only military mission that prevailed in the U. S. during its formative years. Such a return to what Colonel Crystal refers to and touts as a “Benevolent Military” would, he claims, effectively serve to address and repair much of what plainly has gone haywire with this country since 9/11.
 
 

James Hufferd (born in Iowa, 1946), attended public schools and grew up in a small farming environment. He earned a Bachelor's degree in History at Iowa State University, a Master's in International Studies at University of Wyoming, and a Ph.D. in Geography at University of Minnesota (1979). He has taught in elementary schools (including an isolated one-room rural school in eastern Nevada) and numerous universities, and has traveled and researched in 19 countries, including the Canadian Eastern and High Arctic and various parts of Brazil. Fluent in Portuguese, James Hufferd was twice a Research Associate in Residence at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

In addition to "The Bells of Autumn," a Western historical novel, (please click "See all books" below, next to my name, to access this book) James Hufferd has written and published (2005) in two volumes the first narrative history of Brazil published in English since 1819, entitled "Cruzeiro do Sul, A History of Brazil's Half-Millennium."

His 2011 historical novel, "The Bells of Autumn," is an exploration of white-Indian relations in the American West as well as a portrayal of the early legacy of a section of the northern Great Plains.

James Hufferd is also the author of "The Majoritarian Solution," a very early assessment of American corporatism (1985), "Homeland: A Comedy," a satiric novel to be available in December, 2011, and "Troublesome Country," a historical/political essay to be published in late winter, 2012. He is particularly interested in the political economy and history of the U.S. and the international/global New World Order, and is currently completing a novel entitled "Evil Vanquished! The Extraordinary Rendition of the Bilderberg."

 

The Territory


The Memoir of a Friendship in Earliest Iowa, is a lighthearted but serious work of fiction in the form of a memoir by one of a pair of generally serious, sometimes comical pioneer settlers in pre-territorial and territorial Iowa. Its inspiration is a number of now little-known local and region-wide events described by prominent longtime resident and scholar Benjamin F. Gue in his 1903 History of Iowa. The setting and details of conditions and events, thoroughly researched are portrayed accurately from scores of sources. The intended readership is anyone interested in a reliable information about Iowas pioneer past, the foundations of the present state, and the many issues, large and small, current at the time-span addressed its also written for anyone who enjoys a rip-roaring story full of passages of subtle and sometimes not so subtle humor. Though the work is not lengthy, it portrays virtually every event of relevance for early pre-Civil War Iowa, as well as the tribulations and progress of its two featured pioneers and their families, who get involved in practically everything. The book highlights in particular the opening and development of the land, early settlements and towns, the march of the frontier across the territory and raw new state, the feel of the new land, the way the people were, and the sound and subjects of their daily conversation. The Territory will provide reliable and interesting context for general readers, genealogists, and students of all ages.

 Wow his 2012 Novel predicted Drumpf!!

Homeland: A Comedy


Homeland: A Comedy is a hilarious but merciless satire of America's crisis-ridden political scene and culture. The plot involves a president who sells the United States outright to pay off the national debt. Find out what happens when the newly elected President, who is a sight slicker than he is bright, goes along with the scheme to sell his bankrupt nation lock, stock and barrel - the Constitution be damned! The lucky buyer is "The Company" - a CIA-inspired combine of all big U.S. corporations. The Prez sets out to fleece both the knee-jerk government his party controls, and the well-meaning but gullible public. Absurdity mounts as the press blithely rubber-stamps this grand charade. Can the take-over scheme long survive when two intrepid journalists, plus a handful of legislators who won't drink the Kool-Aid, find the courage to look behind the curtain? This satiric novel exposes precisely what is wrong with today's America.

 Looks like he died from COVID!

James Hufferd, 74, of Adel, Iowa, passed away on May 18, 2020, at Mercy Hospice in Johnston, around the time local reports noted additional COVID-19 deaths in the county, 

 He was critical of the flu vaccine in his interview with the 9/11 truther podcaster...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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