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''. In 2003, he won the best British Travel Writer covering North America. His first book, published in 2008, is called ''Selling Your Father’s Bones'' and follows the 1877 exodus of the

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Native American tribe through Oregon, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Schofield spent three months travelling through the American Northwest in a 1983 Dodge Camper van to research the book. Times Online
/ref> Now a history and politics teacher at Hurstpierpoint College, West Sussex, he continues to write middle-grade historical fiction.

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Articles by Brian Schofield on the 5th Estate blog
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