As summer turns to fall, my memories of the annual June gathering of Western Writers of America inspire me every day. A highlight of the conference was during the Spur Awards banquet when Executive Director Candy Moulton and emcee Cherokee-American actor Clu Gulager remembered their mutual friend, the late Cherokee author Robert Conley, who had received the WWA’s highest honor, the Owen Wister Award, just weeks before he died earlier this year. I also met a great group of publishers who ar


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