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Archie Satterfield grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. After serving four years in the Navy, he attended St. Louis University and the University of Missouri before moving to Seattle in 1959 and receiving a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Washington. He lived in the Pacific Northwest many years working first as a reporter,then eventually an editor and columnist on the Seaside (Oregon) Signal, Longview (Washington) Daily News, and the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He was founding editor of the regional magazine, Northwest Living, and edited the Museum of Flight News and Enetai, a magazine for riders of the Washington State Ferries.

Since 1987 he has been a full time writer of books and articles on history, travel and popular culture. He also writes commissioned histories for clients such as Alaska Airlines, Tillamook Cheese, Crescent Foods and the City of Edmonds, Washington. He recently completed a history of Trillium Corporation in Bellingham, Washington, and is actively searching for another commissioned history project.

His 40-plus books have been published by a variety of national and regional publishing houses. Some have been in print more than thirty years.

His history and travel articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including The History Channel Magazine, Porthole, Travel Holiday, Sunterre magazine, Missouri Life, Robb Report, Mobil Motorist, Sunset, Hong Kong Tatler, Volta ao Mundo (Portugal), and numerous North American newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Arizona Daily Star and the Toronto Globe and Mail.

His second book for Countryman Press, Backroads & Byways of Washington, was published in June, 2010. His first book for Countryman in this series was on Missouri. He has put several of his older books back into circulation via Amazon's Kindle and assorted other internet resources.

He is also available to write advertising copy and commissioned histories of organizations and families, He can most easily be contacted by email at byarchie@msn.com.