It would be so wonderful to get this Roy Rogers Dale Evans film project up and running. There have been so many false starts and stops. As it currently stands Clint Black and Lisa Hartman-Black are set to portray the singing/acting duo. I think it is a good fit. I’ve been on the phone with read more…

Thank you to all the people who emailed me and asked about the new book. Copies have gone out to the first five book lovers who expressed an interest in reading Outlaw Tales of California and I hope their time spent poring over stories about some of the Old West’s bad guys is educational and read more…

Outlaw Tales of California is in bookstores everywhere today. The subject matter was incredibly interesting to research and I hope that the title does well for Globe. It is part of a series of books about outlaws from a variety of western states. I made plans to travel to Cody, Wyoming in May to complete read more…

The book signing I participated in yesterday at the Placer County courthouse in Auburn was well attended. I met many nice people and some of them even brought their own historical artifacts along. One kind woman brought an autographed photo of the famed child actress Lotta Crabtree and a pair of Lotta’s earrings. I’m always read more…

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get past the decisions I made concerning my brother. I shouldn’t have succumbed to threats and then asked him to take a plea. In doing the research about cases similar to my brother’s I’ve found a number of broken people who have had to live through the read more…

I guess you never forget your first love. You relish in the anticipation of when you will see them next and imagine what you’ll say or do. It’s a glorious sickness. I never would have thought someone like Buffalo Bill Cody would have remembered his first love, but he did. I’ve been writing a book read more…

I’ve never enjoyed writing about a subject as much as the posse story I’ve been working on. The heart of tale is about the pursuit of justice and atonement for a horrible wrong. Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and Charlie Bassett would sooner yield to frontier style justice and shoot the man who killed Dora Hand read more…