The First Fast Draw , give or take a book, was Louis L'Amour's 20th career full-length. The novel was first published by Bantam in ...

In this exclusive video, Eric sits down with Jack Hatfield, the direct descendant of "Devil Anse" Hatfield, one of the most iconic...

Is there more than just country music in Music City? Nashville, TN will never be the same when Eric hits an antique mall, Half Price Books, ...

It's another investigative Paperback Warrior episode! In this feature, Eric delves into the murky life and career of crime-fiction, scie...

In this episode, Eric heads out west to examine the career of Bill Gulick, a prolific western writer that contributed to the pulp western, a...

Robert E. Howard's weird fiction story “Black Hound of Death” first appeared in the November 1936 issue of Weird Tales . It was also in...

Colorado resident Douglas Hirt has been an accomplished author of western fiction since 1991. Later, he threw his talent for historical fic...

According to his bio, Jarret Keene is an assistant professor in the Department of English at UNLV where he teaches American literature and t...

The August, 1936 issue of Argosy featured a horror western short-story titled “The Dead Remember”. The author was Robert E. Howard , a ve...

The Edge series by George Gilman ( Terry Harknett , 1936-2019) promises to be “The Most Violent Westerns in Print,” but the fourth installm...

Jack M. Bickham (1930-1997) wrote predominantly westerns during his career while also teaching writing at the University of Oklahoma. Hangm...

According to the  Cutting Edge Books author page, Robert Steelman (1914-1994) worked for the Army as a civil electronics technician from 19...

The genre “splatter western” came to fruition when Patrick C. Harrison III of Death's Head Press made it a company goal to release a ser...

Conventional wisdom is that Jory Sherman (1932-2014) was the man behind the Robert Eagle pen name for the paperback Bounty Man Kildoon. The ...

Jon Messmann (1920-2004) created the popular Trailsman adult western series and the superior, but less successful, Canyon O’Grady series...

New York Times bestselling author   Lee Goldberg  began his career as a journalist, reporting for national publications, including the Los ...

Budd Lewis (1948-2014) began his entertainment career by directing television commercials between 1970 to 1974. Beginning in 1974, Lewis wro...

When I browse “best of” lists associated with the literary work of Louis L'Amour , a few books seem to always make the list – Hondo , Fl...

In 1982, paperback author John Jakes (1932-2023) struck literary gold with his 800+ page Pre-Civil War epic, North and South . The bestselle...

High Lonesome , a 1962 stand-alone novel by Louis L'Amour is a “chase the chasers” western . It's a rarely used formula where a rid...