The Gunsmoke
Drifted West

Dorman Chasteen was born in Oklahoma City in 1949. He is a Christian. He is very fortunate in that his family passed down stories for generations and historical records verify the happenings. HIs stories includes many family occurrences, their lives and their deaths. His maternal grandfather was involved in two Indian incidents when he was a boy and his great-great-grandfather was a galvanized (Confederate) Yankee at Fort Laramie at the height of the Great Sioux War. He carried a bullet in his leg until his death in 1915. His other paternal great-great-grandfather had a finger shot-off in the Civil War. His paternal great-grandmother stood-off Comanches by holding a broom like it was a rifle. His great uncle was an Indian Agent for the Oglala Sioux (Crazy Horse's tribe), Northern Cheyenne, and Kiowa when Indian combatants from the Indian Wars were still alive.

Dorman has a picture of himself and the last Indian survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn in taken in 1955. One of his ancestors was the drummer for General Jackson on his way to the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on with Jackson on his way to New Orleans.

Dorman is a firearms enthusiast. He is a combat veteran of the United States Marine Corps and an Army veteran with Recondo (shortened Ranger School from 1970s) and Jump qualification. When he writes about a wound, it is something he has seen. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and father of three grown girls and a step-daughter. He is retired military and Civil Service.