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"These five stories range from the surreal to the tear-jerker, as the Old West is held upside down by its boots and shaken until all common sense falls out into the crucible of parody. In Rumors from the Edge of the World, Kid Concho and his Arizona outlaw gang of misfits stumble upon a prophetic Apache spring. Too Long in the Saddle follows the exploits of a Boston newspaper reporter who is ordered on assignment to frontier Kansas. Code of the Ranger travels with a quartet of Arizona Rangers who-without extradition papers-must ride undercover into Texas to bring back Bad Bob Banning. Once they capture him, can they make it out of Texas alive? In Gourd, fourteen-year-old Curtis Blaydes loses his father and mother. Alone he continues to run the family homestead in the hinterlands of south Texas, until a visitor arrives.
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Mark Warren, Author/EducatorMark Warren is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in Chemistry/Pre-med. Mark also pursued music composition and arrangement at Georgia State University, while performing original works in various concerts, scoring plays for The Academy Theater and having his suite The Once and Future King performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. At Medicine Bow, his school in the Southern Appalachians, he teaches nature classes and survival skills of the Cherokees. The National Wildlife Federation named him Georgia's Conservation Educator of the Year in 1980. In 1998 Mark became the U.S. National Champion in whitewater canoeing, and in 1999 he won the World Championship Longbow title.Mark has written extensively for regional and national magazines, including: Guernica, Blue Ridge Highlander, North Georgia Journal, Georgia Backroads, Camping, Paddle, and Survivor's Edge. Mark is a lifelong student of Native American and Western Frontier History. He is a member of the Wild West History Association and Western Writers of America. Mark has presented at top western museums around the country, and has been featured on many radio shows and podcasts.His published books include: * Two Winters in a Tipi (Lyons Press, 2012) , a memoir, a naturalist immerses himself into the flow of the forests of Southern Appalachia* Wyatt Earp: An American Odyssey (Originally published in hardback by Five Star Cengage, these new paperback versions come from Two Dot in August 2021) , an historical novel trilogy that dissects the events and motivations of America's most iconic lawman. Comprised of: The Long Road to Legend - A Five Star "Readers Favorite" originally under "Adobe Moon"Born to the Badge - "2019 Spur Award Finalist"A Law Unto Himself - an "Editor's Choice" by the Historical Novel Society and winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award (under the title "Promised Land") * Secrets of the Forest (Lyons Press, 2020) a 4-volume series that explores the adventures of survival skills: fire, shelter, stalking, hunting, water purification, food gathering, natural medicines, tracking, archery and other projectiles, canoeing and more.*Indigo Heaven (Five Star - Gale Cengage, July 2021) After the Civil War a battle-hardened Georgian seeks redemption in the open range of Wyoming Territory. *Librarians of the West: A Quartet (Five Star - Gale Cengage September 2021) - Warren is a contributing author to the anthology. His novella, The Cowboy, the Librarian and the Broomsman is a parody of the Old West set in Montana in the 1870's.*Song of the Horseman (SV Original Publication, July 2021) a Chicago schoolteacher embarks on a journey to reclaim his Cherokee heritage by retracing the steps of his long-dead grandfather.*Last of the Pistoleers (SV Original Publication, October 2021) a modern-day county sheriff in north Georgia applies old-fashioned methods of the O
