Roping, riding and writing—that’s a typical day for Mike Blakely, one of the fastest rising stars in Western fiction. Lately the fourth “R,” research, takes up much of Blakely’s time as he gets the facts of the Civil War battle of Valverde, New Mexico absolutely correct. “Colonel Henry Hopkins Sibley planned to conquer the New Mexico Territory and then move on and take over California with an army armed with pistols and shotguns,” Blakely explained during a recent interview. “
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