Newcastle, CA: The Blue Oak Press / Capra Press, 1977. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An epic narrative poem, set in the Sierra Nevada foothills, a book which he said it took him 13 years to write. An association copy INSCRIBED on the title page to fellow poet and author, Gary Elder and dated in 1978 (among other things, Hotchkiss wrote an afterward to the 1979 edition of Elder's 'Arnulfsaga'.) Publisher's material laid in. Illustrated with the author's photographs. 314 pp plus a note by the author, the colophon and 3 additional photographs. Uncommon in hardcover, and especially so inscribed. ISBN: 0-912950331.