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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

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

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

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

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

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

Harriet and I are pleased to announce October 6 as the publication date for Beloved Companion, a nonfiction Civil War book that almost ended up in