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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR MATTHEW P. MAYO: "Mayo is a breezy yarn-spinner,
the kind you'd like to sit around a pot-bellied stove with on a cold night."
--Bookgasm.com
"This is fiction writing at its best, and some of the best writing you'll find in the Western field."
--Peter Brandvold, author of the Rogue Lawman Westerns
About the author
Matthew P. Mayo is an award-winning author of thirty books and dozens of short stories. His novel,
Tucker's Reckoning, won the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Western Novel, and his short stories have been Spur Award and Peacemaker Award finalists. His many novels include
Winters' War; Wrong Town; Hot Lead, Cold Heart; The Outfit: To Hell and Back; North of Forsaken; The Hunted; Shotgun Charlie, and others. Matthew's numerous nonfiction books include the bestselling
Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears; Haunted Old West; Jerks in New England History; and
Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen. He has been an on-screen expert for a popular BBC-TV series about lost treasure in the American West, and has had three books optioned for film. Matthew and his wife, photographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, rove the byways of North America in search of hot coffee, tasty whiskey, and high adventure.
