Queen Vernita Meets the Wandering Buffalo

By Dr. Dawn Menge

Queen Vernita's newest adventure finds her learning to snowshoe to look for Moose and elk antlers, working in a logging camp, learning to make sourdough bread and milking cows. Valentine's Day brings her sledding on the local hill, drinking hot chocolate and listening to Ukele music. Ken takes her down crazy woman canyon to learn the folklore an

• Language: English
• Publisher: Land of Quails House
• Release date: Dec 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781959182375

Dr. Dawn Menge

Dr. Dawn Menge has won thirty-four international literary awards as the author of the Queen Vernita educational series. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, a master's degree and a Credential in moderate/severe disabilities, and a bachelor's degree in human development. Dr. Menge has been teaching students with severe cognitive delays for twenty-years. She has three children and five beautiful grandchildren and lives in Southern California.

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Dedication

To our most amazing parents Dick and Casey, THANK YOU for the great times and childhood memories. You two have helped shape our lives and live up to the Branaman motto, While other kids eat cotton candy, we chew nails.

We love you and wish Debbie could be here to share in this special experience.

We miss her more than cows and think of her daily.

With Love, Dani, Dawn, Patti, and Ken

Introduction

Queen Vernita and her friend Debbie had traveled many miles to visit with their family and friends in the town of Wandering Buffalo, Oceaneer. They arrived at the most famous hotel in those parts, The Quickdraw, which was filled with history and wild west excitement. As the queen signed the hotel registry, she saw that it was graced with the signatures of the likes of Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, Teddy Roosevelt, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, all adventurous people who shaped the wild west.

The Quickdraw Hotel and the town of Wandering Buffalo would be the Queen’s and Debbie’s home base for the rest of the year.

Oh, my, I’m so thrilled to be here and sleep in the same rooms as so many colorfully famous people. I’m looking forward to meeting with the Branaman clan and learning all about their lives in the gorgeous natural meadows, rivers, valleys and canyons at the foot of the Bighorn mountains. Queen Vernita and Debbie grabbed their bags and followed the bellman up the creaky stairs to