Description:
Saddle up and ride down the trails of western history with this outstanding, Spur award-winning short-story anthology from Silverado Press! Our all-star posse of acclaimed, seasoned western writers and fresh new voices have each taken a real historical event and built a story around it. From the 1812 earthquake in southern California to the 11856 sinking of the steamboat Arabia to the 1865-1872 Black Hawk War, these tales are guaranteed to thrill, entertain, and teach a little something in the bargain.
Contributing authors include veteran authors Mary Fan, Kelli Fitzpatrick, Sharon Frame Gay, Steve Hockensmith, Del Howison, Nik James, Paul Kupperberg, Vonn McKee (whose story here, "Point of Impact," won the 2026 Spur Award for best short story from the Western Writers of America), Lisa Majewski, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Rod Miller, Cheryl Pierson, L. J. Washburn and James Reasoner, Richard Prosch, Gord Rollo, and Aaron Rosenberg.
Brief description: Editor, author, and Silverado Press co-founder Jeffrey J. Mariotte isthe award-winning author of dozens of books, including the MajorCrimes Squad: Phoenix procedural thriller series, historical Westernepic Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta (with PeterMurrieta), the Cody Cavanaugh Western series, Tarzan and the Forestof Stone, the Deadlands novel Thunder Moon Rising, and many morein various genres. He's also known for his comics and graphic novelwork, especially the long-running Weird Western series Desperadoes.Three of his novels have won Scribe Awards for Best Original Novel, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.He has also won the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic-Con, is aco-winner of the Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and he has been a finalist for the Spur Award from the Western Writersof America and the Peacemaker Award from the Western Fictioneers, among many others. He has worked in virtually every aspect of thebook business, including bookselling, editing, and publishing. Helives in the desert with his wife, author and poet Marsheila Rockwell, and their family.