Author, Historian, Journalist
Inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame with the class of 2022, Patrick Dearen of Midland, Texas, is the author of 16 novels and 10 nonfiction books. His nonfiction has focused on the Pecos and Devils rivers, while his books drawn from his 76 interviews with pre-1932 cowboys document the last generation of cowhands before mechanization. In 2015, he received the Spur Award of Western Writers of America for his novel The Big Drift.
I was fortunate to grow up

True West November 2022