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Three Wyoming Authors Awarded Western Writing's Highest Honor

Wyoming authors Craig Johnson, Candy Moulton, and W. Michael Gear are winners of the Western Writers of America's 2024 Spur Awards. The Spur Award is considered one of the most prestigious awards in American literature.

Giddy up: Award-winning author brings cattle drive tale to Franklin

Influential Indigenous: Chatting With Owen Wister Award Winner Joseph M. Marshall III

We talk with Owen Wister Award recipient Joseph M. Marshall III about notable Indigenous peoples who have influenced the Native community.

MEANDERING THE MESQUITE: THE WRITE STUFF: A glance at a difficult profession

Take note, I do not consider myself a writer. I am a storyteller. Let there be no confusion on that point. A writer, by definition, constructs a story line and

Elmer Kelton Country

A trip tracking the Texas author across the Lone Star State is sure to create memorable stories.

True Grit - True West Magazine

Eighteen-year-old Susan Magoffin traveled West with her lady’s maid on the Santa Fe Trail.

Border Bandits, Outlaws and Cattle Thieves - True West Magazine

Bighorn Basin Couple to Enter Western Writers Hall of Fame

Bighorn Basin Couple to Enter Western Writers Hall of Fame Written by Andrew-Rossi on January 27, 2021 W. Michael and Katleen O’Neal Gear of Cody are being honored for their lifetimes of western writing, dedicated to the prehistory of the American West. The Western Writers of America announced that the 2021 Wister Award – the non-profit guild’s highest honor – is being awarded to W. Michael and Katleen O’Neal Gear, the “international bestselling writing team” and Bighorn Basin residents Candy Moulton, Executive Director of Western Writers of America, explains that the Wister Award recognizes a career of writing and contributions to western literature. The Gears epitomize this achievement like few others, bringing their scientific background to their award-winning stories.

W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear to receive Western Writers of America's Owen Wister Award

Share this article Share this article ENCAMPMENT, Wyo., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The international bestselling writing team of W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal of Cody, Wyo., will receive the 2021 Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature, Western Writers of America (www.westernwriters.org) has announced. The Gears, best known for their prehistory series of novels, will also be inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame, housed outside the McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody. "For more than three decades, Kathleen and Michael Gear have been bringing the past to vivid life with their books about the indigenous peoples. Both individually and as a writing team, their work stands out for its focus and readability," WWA President Chris Enss said. "The Wister Award was created for such talent."

What History Has Taught Me: Johnny D. Boggs - True West Magazine

True West Magazine Johnny D. Boggs, the 2020 Owen Wister Award recipient for lifetime contributions to Western literature and inductee into Western Writers Hall of Fame, has won a record eight Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. A former newspaper journalist, he has been writing fiction and nonfiction full time since 1998. His books include A Thousand Texas Longhorns; Hard Winter; Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me; and Billy the Kid on Film, 1911-2012. His website is JohnnyDBoggs.com.   My mother and father… Songwriter Rodney Crowell wrote my life story in “Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream)”: “But Mama kept the Bible read/and Daddy kept our family fed/ And somewhere in between I must have grown…”