Carlton “Buck” Buchanan was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from Chattanooga High School. “First and Thirty” is Buck’s first published book.

“First and Thirty” follows the lives of Chattanooga’s City High football players and their friends as they undergo the trials and tribulations of being in high school during tumultuous years, while attempting to beat their arch-rivals Central High on the gridiron.

On a cold night in November 1970, the maroon-clad seniors of City High’s Dynamo football team took the field one last time, carrying the indelible lessons that Head Coach Bobby Davis had instilled in them. Would this be the game that would break the spell Central High had held over them?