Each year Western Writers of America (WWA) adds a distinguished writer to the Western Writers Hall of Fame (HOF). With the breadth and depth of writers who created “Literature of the West for the World” to select from, the decision is based on a vote of the organizational membership. Inducted into the HOF this year is Angie Debo, a writer who broke through boundaries when she departed from the Turner thesis to view the West as a story of conquest rather than settlement. Her first book, Th

August 2014
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- Lewis Kingman
- Single Shot of Southern Comfort
- Ghostly Soldiers March On
- The Blast at Steins Pass
- Robbers of the Rails
- Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
- On the Trail of Bigfoot
- Related to Outlaws
- Barker’s Riches
- Rough Drafts 8/14
- Let Freedom Ring!
- Love Song to the Plains and the Desert West
- Bull Doggin’
- Robert E. Lee’s Legacy East and West
- A Hero Reconsidered
- Kansas Tribe Reconsidered
- Marshal Chet Byrnes Rides Again!
- Deadly Feud Truths Revealed
- Edwin R. Sweeney’s Passion for the West Revealed
- A Sporting Gunfight
- Bitter Tears for Little Big Man
- Going Nuts Out West
- August 2014 Events
- Al Harper
- How frequent was mail service in the Old West?
- What is the Halderman case?
- How did American Indians view Gen. George Crook, who fought so many of them during the Indian Wars?
- Did John Wayne’s brother, Robert, appear in any of his movies?
- A constable testified that a man he killed on a railroad platform in Willcox, Arizona, in 1881 had been “skylarking.” What is that?
- The Oklahoma Kid