I read this one on a camping trip to West Texas, and read it mostly in the afternoons after a long day of hiking the Guadalupe mountains, ...

I started writing in this blog years ago as a way to define what I liked most about westerns.   While my enthusiasm to write regularly ...

I’ve been surprised recently at how often the Colt Revolving Rifle pops up in fiction.  One appears in the hands of former mountain man ...

After a long, sweaty day of yard work, Mrs. Slap and I sat out on the back deck over moonshine and tea discussing what books we intend t...

Earlier this year I wrote a lukewarm review of Peter Brandvold’s The Devil’s Winchester , an entry in a long running series about boun...

Steve Hockensmith, the author of the Holmes on the Range series (I really should check that out) interviews ten western writers and as...

I’ve made a lot of grumpy comments over the last year about the failure of genre fiction, particularly the western genre.  As a fantas...