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My Personal West: Bill Crider
My Personal West –The Real and the Unreal
I grew up in Texas, a place a lot of people associate with the west, and my father wanted me to be a cowboy. Not in the sense of driving herds to Kansas or anything, but a cowboy in the way he was, a guy with some acreage [...]
My Personal West: Matthew P. Mayo
Vermont Heifers by Jennifer Smith-Mayo
Below is a modified, abbreviated version of the Introduction to my 2009 non-fiction book, Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears. It sums up much of my take on the American West. And yet that, too, changes every day as I think, read, and write about the West, which continues [...]
Regina’s War at the Western Online
Regina’s War is my second story with John Coburn: The Peregrine, and it’s a direct sequel to the first, Last Day at Red Horizon.
I believed my challenge here was to tell a story that could stand on its own, but also work in the context of a series and leave the reader wondering what might [...]