STRANDED

STRANDED

A STORY OF FRONTIER SURVIVAL

• 2018 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

• 2018 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction Novel by the Western Writers of America

• 2018 Peacemaker Award for Best Young Adult Western Novel by Western Fictioneers

• 2018 Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction by Women Writing the West

• 2018 High Plains Book Award for Young Adult Book

• 2018 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Young Readers

• 2018 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award for Young Adult Historical Fiction

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FEATURED EXCERPT …

THE OUTFIT (BOOK 3):
OUTLAWED!

The Outfit: Outlawed!

Talbot Timmons climbed aboard the westbound train thirty minutes before it pulled out of the station at Santa Fe. He smiled, puffed with pride at his life’s recent twists. Not only was he warden of Yuma Territorial Prison, but after the War of Northern Aggression, he’d managed to revive and ride point on the Brotherhood of the Phoenix, the mightiest group of die-hard Confederates the world had yet seen. And soon, he thought, soon I will be a governor, then a senator, then—and why the hell not?— President of the United States….

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Hot Off the Gritty Press!

HOT LEAD, COLD HEART: One Last Mission for Mason the Mankiller. It’s the new GRITTY PRESS version in ebook and paperback formats of my 2008 novel. Never before released in the US, HOT LEAD, COLD HEART started out as a hardcover for the Black Horse Western line by...

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NEW NOVEL ALERT!

My latest, TUCKER'S RECKONING, is up for sale today. It's a novel I wrote for the Ralph Compton line and I'm pleased with how it turned out. It was also chosen by the publisher as the first-ever hardcover for the Compton line. Here's what they have to say in the press...

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O UNHOLY NIGHT!

On his blog, The Outlaw trail, friend and fellow writer, Charles Whipple (aka Chuck Tyrell), is going through the chilling new anthology, SIX-GUNS AND SLAY BELLS: A CREEPY COWBOY CHRISTMAS!, story by spooky story…. Today he mentions my contribution, "O Unholy Night,"...

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Run to the Hills! Halloween’s Nearly Here….

To get yer blood pumpin’ and yer eyes buggin’, here’s an excerpt from my new non-fiction book, HAUNTED OLD WEST: Phantom Cowboys, Spirit-Filled Saloons, Mystical Mine Camps, and Spectral Indians!   Excerpt from Chapter 27: Wolf Girl of Devil’s River Devil’s River, Del...

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