Throughout history, people of every culture on every continent believed dragons walked the earth. Their likeness has been recreated in jewelry, carvings, sculptures, and paintings, beginning with 25,000-year-old cave drawings. Thousands of dusty documents penned by scholars, explorers, and men of science give descriptive testimony of close encounters with miscreations they called dragons. In modern times, they are portrayed as a product of humankind's imagination, and ancient chronicles have been relegated to the status of legends and folklore.

But are the chronicles just stories, or are they true accounts of actual creatures-perhaps dinosaurs?

In 1988, Ivy Johnson discovered a four-volume journal written during the mid-1700s by Samuel Crawford, a designated historian on the Virginia frontier. Everything in the journal was drenched in truth, somewhat like a ship's logbook, except for one anomaly that Ivy couldn't justify: Crawford documented that a pioneer family had been killed by a dragon. The story initiated Ivy's theory that dragons were not mythical creatures, but instead were the descendents of a handful of dinosaurs that simply forgot to become extinct.



Bill Denton is married, a proud father of two adult children who live "a stone's throw" from their family's homestead, and the grandfather of four precious granddaughters whom he sees daily. His close-knit family life, his business, his writing, and a cluster of lifelong friends consume his time-with the exception of an occasional bass fishing trip. He resides in Virginia and is the majority stockholder in an Electronic System Integration firm.

Denton developed the curriculum for an adult education Practical Electricity course. He wrote and illustrated its study manual and student workbook, and then taught the course for six and a half years.

He is the original author of a document titled The Standards of Apprenticeship, which was certified and accepted without dissent by the Department of Labor for the Central Virginia Electrical Contractors Association.

In 2005, he won first place in a 3,000-word writing contest for the greater Richmond area. Later that year, he placed second in the fiction category of the prestigious Virginia Writers Club statewide contest.

He has written two novels, one 178-page as-yet-unpublished cookbook, and is currently writing a collection of children's short stories titled Popa Time.