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A Civil War Love Story
Beloved Companion: The Inspiring Civil War Letters of a Soldier, His Wife and Their Faith in God, a series of 80 Civil War letters between

A Date with Susan B. Anthony!
One of the pleasures of writing the eight comic Westerns in The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax series was that I got to do a lot

Custer’s Bluster
George Armstrong Custer is one of those divisive historical figures that Western aficionados either love or hate. I fall into the latter category as a

A Horse’s Tale
Shortly after I retired from my professional career in higher education, a regional publisher contacted me to discuss some potential projects, including publishing some of

What’s Up, Doc?
Next to Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday is my favorite Old West legend so I was delighted to write Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral for

Jesse & Me
When Bantam approached me in the 1990s about starting a comic Western series that became The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax, they had pretty much decided

Blame It on Billy the Kid
Growing up in the 1950s, I spent a lot of evenings watching Westerns on the black-and-white television and then playing cowboy and Indians the next

Bluster’s Last Stand
One of my criticism of Westerns over the years is that they often lacked a sense of humor. Three decades ago, Bantam Books invited me

Ghost Editors
You know you’ve made it as an author when editors come out of the grave to help you edit and promote your work (for a