Author Michael Zimmer received the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2015 Outstanding Western Novel Award for The Poacher’s Daughter, published by Five Star/Cengage Gale. Zimmer loves writing about the gritty, real West, filled with characters whose living and dying inspire our love of the American West.  He is a great believer in research before writing, and admits he can spend months and months researching a topic, like he did on the buffalo hunters and traders, for The Poac


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