Author Description

Welcome to Aces, Eights, and Unmarked Graves: Legends of the Black Hills, where the Old West comes alive through the words of some of the finest authors in Western writing. Come in out of the bone-chilling wind and take a seat by the campfire. Hear the ghost of Wild Bill Hickok speak through the veil as he prepares his own killer for the gallows. Stand beside a grieving ranch widow, forced to face down two strangers who arrive hungry for supper but harbor darker appetites. Ride west in a canvas-covered wagon and listen as a dying man recalls surviving a monstrous tornado. Leave Deadwood with a young gunslinger who discovers that pride and reputation are hollow measures of courage-even if it costs him the girl. And skulk through the No. 10 Saloon with a humiliated Jack McCall, summoning the nerve to cowardly end Hickok's life. Sharilyn Thomas, Benjamin Thomas, John Mort, Rob Cooke, Big Jim Williams, Thomas White, James Tweedie, Philip Clausen, and John Rahne are waiting by the fire to spin yarns that will grip your imagination and stir your heart. It's all here in Aces, Eights, and Unmarked Graves: Legends of the Black Hills.