Western Fictioneers

 Post by Doris McCraw writing as Angela Raines Photo property of the Author As of December 28, 2021, this year has three more full days. How...

Growing up, traditions in my house included putting up a live Christmas tree every year—very few people had an artificial tree “back then”—...

  The Territory of Mississippi existed from April 7, 1798 to December 10, 1817, when the western half of the territory was admitted as a sta...

 Post by Doris McCraw writing as Angela Raines Photo property of the Author As I am finishing my month of posts on National Native Heritage ...

For this interview, I get the chance to share Michael R. Ritt's story. Although some may consider him a late starter, his stories have m...

Something interesting popped up in my inbox the other day—something I’d never heard of before. And believe me, I thought I’d heard of just ...

  As usual, many things happened “on this date” in history, but we will concentrate on two that your characters might have experienced. For ...

Spur Award winner John Nesbitt is on tap to share his writer's journey. It's always interesting how early life or just that one some...

  November 5 marks the 150 th anniversary of the “Wickenburg Massacre,” a stagecoach shootout that, to this day, still inspires lively and ...