Doug Buchs was born restless in Darien, Connecticut, in 1942. After squandering a free education at Colgate University, he abandoned a secure future in corporate management, chasing a childhood fantasy: to cross the United States on horseback.

He has worked on an oyster sloop on Long Island Sound, and a shrimp boat in Key West. He has been a working cowboy in Aspen, a logger in Centennial, Wyoming, an artist's model in New York City. He has worked on the slaughterhouse "kill floor" in Denver, trucked 48 states with his own tractor/trailer rig, bartended in Seattle, operated heavy equipment in Alaska. He has also crossed the country on a train – in handcuffs.

Whatever he had been looking for he found when he married his fourth wife in Massachusetts in 1986. He is settled now on the North Shore. It's the longest he’s ever lived in one place since graduating from high school. And he finally went back to school to finish his education, receiving his B.A. from Gordon College, which he earned as a Pike Scholar, Summa Cum Laude.

If his bizarre journey resembling a leaf blown by the wind was to serve any purpose, the stories needed to be told. He has published short works regionally and internationally. The Mescalero Project, is his first published novel.