March 21st, 2008

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 entertaining. The next book, A Beautiful Mine: Women Miners of the Old West, is set to be released in July. I’ve been asked to speak at a prospectors conference to discuss the brave ladies that dared to sink their gold pans into the rivers and streams in places like Nome, Alaska and Tombstone, Arizona. It was a hard life for a man and an even more difficult way of life for a woman. It was all worth it once they discovered gold however. I placed an ad for the new books in the April/May edition of True West magazine. The edition centers around books that transport readers back in time to the wild days of the Old West. True West magazine is one of the best such publications out there. Second only to Chronicles of the Old West. Both are essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about the rugged frontier. I finished chapter eight of the posse book and am off now to start chapter nine. Charlie, Wyatt, Bat, and Bill have just brought James Kenedy into Dodge to stand trial for killing Dora Hand. The story doesn’t end the way Bill Tilghman hoped it would, but Wyatt Earp was right about the unjust outcome. Wyatt had learned the same lesson I was forced to learn this past year that the color of justice is green.