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A memoir of talent buried, identity reclaimed, and the long road back to the man who was never meant to stay underground.

Set in the high desert of the Four Corners, The Artist Buried by the Artist traces the unlikely rise of an Englehart who didn’t follow the family script. In a valley known for artists, athletes, teachers, and men whose names still echo through the community, Wendell Englehart took a different road — one marked by hard labor, addiction, outlaw years, and the long detour through the oldest prison in the West. Yet even underground, the family thread held: the eye for detail, the hands built for craft, the instinct to create. From rebuilding ancient pottery as a kid to becoming the top artist inside a two‑thousand‑man prison, this memoir follows the buried talent that kept clawing its way back to the surface. It’s a story of legacy reclaimed, identity rebuilt, and a man rising into the name he once ran from — not by following the Englehart tradition, but by redefining it

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A memoir of illusion, longing, and the truth that waited on the other side of a prison wall.

The Outlaw and the Angel is the story of a man running from the law, from himself, and toward a memory he couldn’t let go. What began as a childhood crush became a lifeline through twenty‑eight criminal cases, six months in isolation, and the long nights when hope was the only thing keeping him alive. Inside the oldest prison in the West, a voice through a crack in the wall carried the promise of love, redemption, and a future he believed in with everything he had — until the truth arrived in a single sentence that shattered the illusion he’d been living for years. Raw, direct, and unfiltered, this memoir traces the spiral, the fantasy that sustained him, and the moment Wendell Englehart walked out of prison alone, carrying a ghost he had to finally let go.

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A memoir about the moments that break us, the men who shape us, and the climb back into alignment.

Hinge is a raw memoir about fathers and sons, and the long shadow cast by the men who came before us. Set against the rugged Southwest, it follows a boy raised under a hard man’s rules, learning early how to take the hit, take the blame, and keep moving. As the years unfold, the fractures widen — addiction, outlaw years, the wreck that should’ve ended everything, and the slow rebuilding of a life from the inside out.

Through memory and myth, through the stories we inherit and the ones we create to survive, Wendell Englehart traces the hinge moments that swung his life open or slammed it shut. From the quiet rituals that held a family together to the generational patterns he had to break, this book follows the long climb toward becoming the man he needed when he was young.

At its core, Hinge is about symmetry — the way a life can splinter, realign, and still find its way back to center. A testament to resilience, legacy, and the choice to build a different future than the one you were handed

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A memoir of wreckage, redemption, and the tiny tool that carried a man through hell and back.

T‑25 to Life is the raw, unfiltered story of a drywaller who built a booming life and then burned it down through addiction, chaos, and a fuse he lit with both hands. From stolen trucks and blackout nights to marshals in the driveway and a hundred‑year sentence hanging over him, Wendell Englehart’s journey spirals into the oldest prison in the West — where a tiny T‑25 bit becomes both symbol and lifeline. Along the way are the people who shaped him: Larry, the outlaw angel with a mullet and a code; Jeff, the fire‑hearted brother; Jimmy, the loyal friend; three wolves who loved him without judgment; and Hunter, the son who became the reason to rise again. This memoir is a story of running and returning, of outlaw wisdom and strange timing, of the moment a man stops surviving and starts becoming who he was meant to be.

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A visual memoir of grit, grace, and the land that rebuilt the man.

Desert Lines is a visual memoir carved from the wide‑open silence of the Southwest — a life rebuilt through storms, reckonings, and the stubborn hope that refuses to die. Told through poems, drawings, and photography, this book traces the long arc of a man who fell, rose, and learned to see himself again. From childhood moments that lit the first spark, to the years when addiction and outlaw living buried the artist, to the prison yards where graphite and ink became lifelines, each page carries a piece of the climb.

In these three movements — Words, Works & Witness — the desert becomes a teacher, the artwork becomes a record, and the story becomes a testament to becoming: not perfect, but true. This is a memoir of land and lineage, of the artist who went underground and the man who dug him back up, one line, one photograph, one hard‑won truth at a time.

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“A true story carved from dust, danger, and the long road home.”

Set in the high desert of the Four Corners, The Desert Outlaw follows a young man drawn toward a story that won’t let him go. What begins as curiosity becomes an initiation into instinct, legacy, and the unspoken rules carried by the men who came before him. It’s a memoir carved from real dirt and real consequences — a story of fathers and sons, of the men who raised us and the men we become when the old rules stop working. In the high desert of the Four Corners, where ruins outlast bloodlines and outlaw stories travel farther than the wind, a young man hears a tale that won’t let him go. The legendary T-shaped doors carved into the land call to him with a pull he can’t explain. What begins as curiosity becomes a quiet initiation into instinct, legacy, and the unspoken rules carried by the men who came before him. This is a memoir carved from real dirt and real consequences. A story of fathers and sons, of the men who raised us and the men we become when the old rules stop working. A stallion with fire in its eyes. A mentor who understood more than he ever said. A walk-out that marked the moment a boy stepped into a life he didn’t yet understand but felt in his bones. If you’ve ever carried a family’s weight, chased redemption, or tried to make peace with the ghosts who taught you how to walk, this book will feel like home. The Desert Outlaw is the beginning of a larger saga—an origin story forged in dust, danger, and the lessons that stay buried until the day they’re needed the most.

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