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Skeletons of the Sahara

January/February 2005 Candy Moulton

American sailors shipwrecked off the North African Coast in 1815 are sold into slavery in DreamWorks and Intermedia’s Skeletons of the Sahara, based on a true story from Dean H. King’s 2004 book.

Filming expected to start in late 2004.

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Candy Moulton is a frequent contributor to the Renegade Roads column in True West Magazine. For 17 years, she edited the Western Writers of America’s Roundup Magazine; in 2012, she became WWA’s executive director. The Wyoming native leading the organization has written 13 Western history books (including the Spur-winning biography Chief Joseph), co-edited a short fiction collection and written and produced several documentary films (including the Spur-winning Oregon Trails documentary In Pursuit of a Dream).