A year of interviews

Cowhand and rope, Colorado, 1974

It’s time to look back over the last twelve months and make mention of the generous authors who have generously consented to interviews here at BITS. While my priority is chiefly the reading of early westerns (1880-1915) for a forthcoming book, it’s a genuine pleasure to converse with actual living writers. I get to ask them questions about their work in a way that would otherwise make for pretty one-sided conversations with those authors who are long gone.

Here is I hope a complete list of interviews with writers busily at work contributing to what has been well over a century of western fiction. If you see one you missed, just click on through to it.

Chuck Tyrell, Big Enough

Jory Sherman, Shadows of Yesteryear

Nik Morton, Bullets for a Ballot

Richard Prosch, Meadows Ford Blues

Troy D. Smith, Cherokee Winter

Richard S. Wheeler, Collected Short Stories

James Reasoner, Texas Rangers

Wayne D. Dundee, Manhunter’s Mountain

Julia Robb, Scalp Mountain

Carol Buchanan, God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana

John D. Nesbitt, One Foot in the Stirrup

Bruce Holbert, Lonesome Animals

Larry Sweazy, The Coyote Tracker

Richard S. Wheeler, Masterson

Phil Truman, Red Lands Outlaw

Wayne D. Dundee, Reckoning at Rainrock

David Cranmer, The Guns of Vedauwoo

Matt Pizzolato, Outlaw

Josh Garrett-Davis, Ghost Dances

James D. Best, The Shopkeeper

Richard Prosch, Holt County Law

If you know of one that I left out, let me know. It was not intentional.

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Coming up: Robert Alexander Wason, Happy Hawkins (1909)