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Monday, October 29, 2012

Two Great Christmas Anthologies

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I am delighted to have my work in two different -and very different from one another -western-themed Christmas anthologies this year, either...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Wolf Creek Characters #6 Dr. Logan Munro

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Wolf Creek is probably the most unique Western series ever produced. It is published by Western Fictioneers and written by Ford Fargo- who ...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

Wolf Creek Characters #5 Derrick McCain

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Wolf Creek is probably the most unique Western series ever produced. It is published by Western Fictioneers and written by Ford Fargo- who i...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Horror Short Stories for Halloween

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The season of fear is upon us! Check out some of these 99-cent ebook shorts to satisfy your hunger for terror... "Two frontiersme...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Lifetime Achievement Award for Fred Hoxie

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I was delighted to hear that Frederick Hoxie -my mentor, co-adviser, and dissertation director -has been selected to receive the American In...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Wolf Creek Characters #4: Bill Torrance

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WOLF CREEK is probably the most unique western book series ever produced. Here's how Charles Whipple describes it at his review o...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

GUNSMOKE JOURNAL #4: Matt Dillon's Dodge City- A Historian's Nightmare

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As I have expounded on at length in previous blog entries in this “Gunsmoke Journal” series, I have been a Gunsmoke fan pretty much all my...
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Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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