He established the Dubuque "Pops" orchestra and co-founded the DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in 1956. Tigges made many contributions locally to the field of music. Tigges founded the Sinipee Writers Workshop and taught writing seminars in Iowa and Wisconsin. He wrote Mountain Massacre, and Rails to Hades using the name Ned Stone. Under the pen name William Essex he wrote The Pack, Slime, and From Below. Tigges wrote such novels as Garden of the Incubus, Unto the Altar, Kiss Not the Child, Evil Dreams, The Immortal, Hand of Lucifer, As Evil Does, Vessel, Comes the Wraith, Venom, and Book of the Dead. Teaming with James Shaffer, he wrote Dubuque: The 19th Century, Dubuque: The 20th Century, Iowa’s Last Narrow-Gauge Railroad, and Railroads of Dubuque, Iowa. In 1976 Tigges was commissioned to write Jean Marie Cardinal, an historical novel. He wrote more than thirty-eight books under his own name and pen names "Ned Stone" and "William Essex." Tigges began his career as an author and writer in 1973.
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