Melody Groves, Author and Historian Melody Groves deeply loves the Southwest. As a native New Mexican, she explores ghost towns, rides horses and traipses through the desert. Recently, she won the coveted WWA Spur Award for Before Billy the Kid and a Will Rogers Gold Medallion recipient for a magazine story about Billy’s mom. Author of two Western fiction series, The Colton Brothers Saga, and Maud Overstreet novels, she has also written five nonfiction books. Melody lives in Albuquerque, wi


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