Dr. Reppert has used his experiences in the horse industry and living in the American Southwest to craft this Sweetwater novel series. He has extensive knowledge of the horse industry with 25+ years of experience and has been professionally trained in natural horsemanship with 15 years of experience. He has also been a certified natural horsemanship instructor. Throughout his career he has successfully competed in Eventing, Dressage, and Jumping, and has also successfully trained numerous green and feral horses. His family currently runs a horse boarding and training facility in Western PA. In addition to training horses Dr. Reppert has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Reppert has two grown stepdaughters and two grown daughters. His wife has homeschooled their daughters and she also works in the horse industry.