after punke relocated with his wife traci and their two children to missoula, montana, where he worked part-time as a policy consultant and an adjunct professor at the university of montana, he finished two screenplays as well as two non-fiction books, one about the fight to save the buffalo – "last stand" (2007) – and the other about a mining disaster that occurred in north butte, montana – "fire and brimstone: the north butte mining disaster of 1917" (2013).