Western Fictioneers

I am fascinated by Cherokee leader Stand Watie. I've used him as a character in many of my stories. I think the reason I can't seem...

Cooking was a lot more complicated in the 1800's than it is today. You'd think food would be much simpler, but, in fact, much of th...

Humor me if you will. Or, rather, be humored yourself by a true master. During those times when the creative well is running a l...

Ask any writer where their titles come from for their work and you’ll get a thousand different answers from “It just came to me!” to “My pu...

Troy D. Smith The newest Wolf Creek book is here -and it is intense. Abby Potter and several of her soiled doves are traveling by wagon ...

Why did they migrate West? The third in my High Mountain Sheriff series, Founding Sheriff , tells the story of the man who apprenticed as a...

"MITCHELL PASS" by William Henry Jackson At the end of a recent trip to Wyoming, I decided to ramble over to wester...

I’ve had a few folks who read my 1930s B-western book series ask me to name the best actors from the old cowboy films. To me, favorite mov...

One of my favorite writers is Fredric Brown. Brown wrote mostly crime and science fiction stories and is well known for his detective...