The Western Writers of America annual conference this month in Lubbock, Texas, will honor a writer I hold in great esteem, Win Blevins, with the organization’s highest award, the Owen Wister Award. I first met Win Blevins through his beautiful prose that carried me away from my home in North Hollywood, California, on a fantastic journey across the plains and high into the Rockies step-by-step with the mountain men in Give Your Heart to the Hawks (Nash Publishing, 1973), which my father reco


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