Welcome to the Frederick Nolan website.
(a sort of autobiography in the making...)
Fiction:
THE
(London: Barker, 1974; Ulverscroft Large Print 2007)
(and as)
THE ALGONQUIN PROJECT
(New York: Morrow, 1975)
Filmed as Brass Target by MGM (1978)
starring
Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughan, George Kennedy, Edward Herrman,
Bruce Davison and Patrick McGoohan and Max von Sydow.
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(London: Barker, 1974; Ulverscroft Large Print 2008)
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THE RITTER DOUBLECROSS
(London: Barker, 1975; New York: Morrow, 1976; Ulverscroft Large Print 2008)
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KILL PETROSINO!
(London: Barker, 1975; Ulverscroft Large Print 2008)
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THE MITTENWALD SYNDICATE
(London: Cassell, 1976; New York: Morrow, 1977)
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CARVER’S KINGDOM
(London: Macmillan, 1980; New York: Warner, 1980)
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WHITE NIGHTS, RED DAWN
(New York: Macmillan, 1980; London: Hutchinson, 1981)
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WOLF TRAP
(London: Piatkus, 1983; New York: St Martins Press, 1984)
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A PROMISE OF GLORY
(London: Arrow, 1983; New York: Bantam, 1984)
(London: Arrow, 1983; New York: Bantam, 1985)
FIELD OF HONOUR
(London: Hamlyn, 1985)
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RED CENTER
(London: Grafton, 1987; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
(also published by Linford Mystery Library Large Print edition, 2009)
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The Garrett Dossier:
SWEET SISTER DEATH
(New York, Lynx, 1989; London: Century, 1989; Ulverscroft Large Print, 2007)
(New York: Lynx, 1989; London: Century, 1990; Ulverscroft Large Print, 2008)
DESIGNATED ASSASSIN
(London: Century, 1990; Ulverscroft Large Print, 2008)
RAT RUN
(London: Century, 1991; Ulverscroft Large Print, 2008)
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as “Christine McGuire”
UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
(New York: Pocket Books; London: Heinemann, 1993)
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UNTIL JUSTICE IS DONE
(London: Heinemann, 1994; New York: Pocket Books, 1995)
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UNTIL DEATH DO US PART
(New York: Pocket Books, 1997)
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Non-fiction:
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOHN HENRY TUNSTALL
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1965; Santa Fe: Sunstone Press,2009)
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JAY J. ARMES: DETECTIVE
(New York: Macmillan, 1976; London: Macdonald, 1977)
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RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: THE SOUND OF THEIR MUSIC
(London: Dent, 1978; New York: Walker, 1978)
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THE
(Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992; Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2009)
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LORENZ HART: A POET ON BROADWAY
(New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1994)
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BAD BLOOD:
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE HORRELL BROTHERS.
(Stillwater, Okla.: Barbed Wire Press, 1995).
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PORTRAITS OF THE OLD WEST
(London: Salamander Books, 1997; New York: Smithmark,1997.)
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THE WEST OF BILLY THE KID.
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998)
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Pat F. Garrett's THE AUTHENTIC LIFE OF BILLY, THE KID: AN ANNOTATED EDITIONw
with Notes and Commentary by Frederick Nolan
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THE WILD WEST: HISTORY, MYTH AND THE MAKING OF
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TASCOSA, ITS LIFE AND GAUDY TIMES
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THE BILLY THE KID READER
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DEEP TRAILS IN THE OLD WEST:
A FRONTIER MEMOIR
by
Frank Clifford
edited by Frederick Nolan
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, October, 2011)
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Anthologies and Introductions:
THE PREMATURE BURIAL
(London: Corgi Books, 1966)
“I’ll Kiss You Goodnight” (short story)
100 GREAT DETECTIVES or THE DETECTIVE DIRECTORY
Edited and Introduced by Maxim Jakubowski
(London: Xanadu, 1991)
“Frederick Nolan on Spenser”
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LITERARY
Edited by Dwight and Carol Myers
(Santa Fe: New Mexico Book League and Ancient City Press, 1998)
“How an Englishman Became an Expert on the
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OUTLAWS AND LAWMEN OF THE OLD WEST: THE BEST OF NOLA
Edited by Robert K. DeArment
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“The Short Unhappy Life of William Seymour Douglass.”
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Biographical Profiles:
“Johnny Burke 1908-1964.”
“Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen) 1913-1993.”
“Lorenz Milton Hart 1895-1943.”*
“Cole Porter 1893-1964.”
* Selected by the editors as “the outstanding Dictionary of Literary Biography entry of 2002.”
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FANTASY ADVENTURES 10
edited by Philip Harbottle
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“I’ll Kiss You Goodnight.” (short story)
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by Lynda A. Sanchez
(Ruidoso, NM: Write Designs, Ltd. 2009)
Westerns:
(as Frederick H. Christian)
SUDDEN STRIKES BACK
(London: Corgi, 1966)
Republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2005 as BEYOND THE
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SUDDEN - TROUBLESHOOTER
(London: Corgi, 1967)
Republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2010 as HELL IN THE MESQUITES
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SUDDEN AT BAY
(London: Corgi, 1968)
Republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2005 as DRIFTER FROM TEXAS
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SUDDEN - APACHE FIGHTER
(London: Corgi, 1969)
Republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2005 as RETRIBUTION AT WILDERNESS
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SUDDEN – DEAD OR ALIVE!
(London: Corgi, 1970).
Republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2005 as BORDER BRAVADOS
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FIND ANGEL!
(London: Sphere, 1973; New York: Pinnacle, 1974)
republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as RIDE OUT TO VENGEANCE
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SEND ANGEL!
(London: Sphere, 1973; New York: Pinnacle, 1974)
republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as RIDE CLEAR OF DARANGA
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KILL ANGEL!
(London: Sphere, 1973; New York: Pinnacle, 1974)
republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as BAD DAY AT AGUA CALIENTE
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TRAP ANGEL!
(London: Sphere, 1973; New York: Pinnacle, 1974)
republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as AMBUSH IN PURGATORY
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FRAME ANGEL!
(New York: Pinnacle, 1974; London: Sphere, 1975)
republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as SHOWDOWN IN
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HANG ANGEL!
(London: Sphere, 1976; New York: Pinnacle, 1975)
republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as SHOOTOUT AT SILVER KING
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HUNT ANGEL!
(London: Sphere, 1975; New York: Pinnacle, 1975)
republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as MASSACRE IN
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WARN ANGEL!
(London: Sphere, 1975; New York: Pinnacle, 1975)
republished by Pinnacle in 1980 as DUEL AT
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STOP ANGEL!
(London: Sphere, 1976; New York: Pinnacle, 1976)
republished by Pinnacle in 1980 as MANHUNT AT QUEMADO
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(as Daniel Rockfern)
STANDOFF AT
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RIDE OUT TO VENGEANCE
(FIND ANGEL)
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AMBUSH IN PURGATORY
(TRAP ANGEL)
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LONG RIDE INTO HELL
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RIDE CLEAR OF DARANGA
(SEND ANGEL)
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BAD DAY AT AGUA CALIENTE
(KILL ANGEL)
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MASSACRE IN
(HUNT ANGEL)
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SHOWDOWN AT
(FRAME ANGEL)
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SHOOTOUT AT FISCHER’S CROSSING
(HANG ANGEL)
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MANHUNT IN QUEMADO
(STOP ANGEL)
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For children:
LONE STAR WESTERN ANNUAL
(London: Atlas Publishing, 1966)
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JESSE JAMES THE OUTLAW
(London: Macdonald, 1974)
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THE WAGON TRAIN
(London: Macdonald, 1974)
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COWBOYS
(London: Macdonald, 1974)
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LEWIS AND CLARK
(London: Macdonald, 1974)
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GERONIMO
(London: Macdonald, 1975)
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THE PILGRIM FATHERS
(London: Macdonald, 1975)
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THE
(London: Macdonald, 1978)
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As translator (from the French)
Morris & Goscinny:
LUCKY LUKE: JESSE JAMES
(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1972)
LUCKY LUKE: THE STAGE COACH
(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1972)
LUCKY LUKE:
(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1973)
LUCKY LUKE: THE TENDERFOOT
(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974)
LUCKY LUKE:
(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974)
LUCKY LUKE: WESTERN CIRCUS
(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974)
LUCKY LUKE: MA
(London: Hodder, 1980)
LUCKY LUKE: CURING THE
(London: Hodder, 1982)
LUCKY LUKE: THE DASHING WHITE COWBOY
(London: Hodder, 1982)
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Benjamin Rabier:
GIDEON
GIDEON AND HIS FRIENDS
GIDEON'S HOUSE
GIDEON ON THE RIVERBANK.
(London: Knight Books, Hodder, 1979)
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Radio and Television
HEMINGWAY'S "FIESTA"
[THE SUN ALSO RISES]
Script and presentation.
New Horizons, BBC-TV, 1970.
THE RICHARD RODGERS STORY
Interviews, research and scripts for a series of six one-hour programmes with music,
introduced by Jessie Matthews.
BBC Radio 2, weekly 25 October - 30 November, 1976.
WESTERNS
Script, research and personal appearance
with John Harvey and J. T. Edson
A Better Read, Tyne-Tees TV, 1980
SPIES AND SECRET AGENTS
Script, research and personal appearance
with Ted Allbeury and Brian Freemantle
A Better Read, Tyne-Tees TV, 1980
THRILLERS
Script, research and personal appearance
with Ken Follett and Sarah Harrison
A Better Read, Tyne-Tees TV, 1981
BESTSELLERS
Script, research and personal appearance
with Stephen Pile and Nigel Rees
A Better Read, Tyne-Tees TV, 1981.
THE
Consultant.
The Real West, A&E Channel, NBC-TV. 1995.
LORENZ HART: A POET ON BROADWAY
Research and two-hour broadcast with Sheridan Morley
BBC Radio 2, May 14, 1995.
QUIEN ES? BILLY THE KID.
Consultant and personal appearance
Colores KABQ-TV
BUFFALO BILL AR Y STRADE
Consultant and personal appearance
Teliesyn TV, Cardiff, Wales, 1998.
BILLY THE KID ~ WILD BILL HICKOK ~ THE EARP BROTHERS
DVTV for The Learning
THE RODGERS AND HART STORY: THOU SWELL, THOU WITTY
Consultant and personal appearance
BBC2-TV,
BILLY THE KID UNMASKED
Consultant, photographs and personal appearance
Morningstar Entertainment
for the Discovery Channel: March 2, 2004.
BILLY THE KID
Consultant, photographs and personal appearance
BBC-tv “Timewatch”/Discovry Channel series The Wild West
Broadcast in
DER TOD VON BILLY THE KID
Consultant, photographs and personal appearance
“Galileo Mystery” by Story House Productions,
Broadcast in
BILLY THE KID
Consultant, photographs and personal appearance
National Geographic Channel "Mystery Files"
Parthenon Entertainment, Chorleywood, Herts. UK
Broadcast in UK February 3, 2010.
Articles, 1955 -
“The Reason Why: Notes on the
English Westerners Brand Book 1 (7) (May 1955) 1-8
Victory or Death: The
English Westerners Brand Book 1(new series) (5-6) (Mar-April, 1956) 3-6.
“Wyatt Earp: The Great Controversy”
English Westerners Brand Book 2 (7) (May, 1956) 1-8
“Billy the Kid: The Real Story”
English Westerners Brand Book 2 (9) (July, 1956) 1-6
“The Legend of the Gunfighter”
English Westerners Brand Book 3 (2) (December, 1956) 3-9.
“A Sidelight on the Tunstall Murder"
“John H. Tunstall, Merchant.
A Brief Outline of the Career of an Itinerant Englishman”
English Westerners Brand Book, 4 (5) (March, 1958) 1-10.
“Ernest Haycox, Writer.”
The Call, Number 25 (1,2) (Fall 1963/Spring 1964) 1.
"The Search for Alexander McSween"
"Dirty Dave Rudabaugh"
Visions of
reprinted in
The Kid, (3) (December 1989) 7-13.
"Dick Brewer: The Unlikely Gunfighter"
National Outlaw & Lawman Association (NOLA) Quarterly, 15 (3) (July-Sept., 1991), 19-27.
"A Note on Frank Baker"
June 1993, 7.
"A Note on William Harrison Johnson"
October, 1993, 3-4.
"Bob Olinger: A Genealogy With Gaps"
Billy The Kid Outlaw Gang (BTKOG) The Outlaw Gazette 6 (1) (December, 1993), 5.
"Hugh Beckwith: An Update"
February, 1994 [dated 1993] 5-6.
“The Horse Thief War"
Old West, 30 (4) (Summer, 1994) 16-23.
"The Men at
NOLA Quarterly, 18 (3) (July-Sept., 1994) 5-12.
"A Note on Jose Chavez y Chavez"
August, 1994, 6-8.
and reprinted in
Los Amigos, LCHT Newsletter. (January, 1995)
"New Year,
October, 1994, 3-4.
"The Men at
NOLA Quarterly, 18 (4) (October-December, 1994) 29-41.
"Bob Olinger: Blowhard or Badman?"
True West, 42 (2) (February, 1995) 14-21.
“A Tribute to Lorenz Hart”
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1995. 255-57
Gale Research:
"Lesser Lights: Notes on some of ‘The Boys’."
Serialized in Los Amigos, LCHT Newsletter.
(July, 1995 - July 1996)
"The Short, Unhappy Life of
NOLA Quarterly, 20 (1) (January - March, 1996) 16-21.
and reprinted in
(October, 1996, 2-4 and January, 1997, 4-8)
and also reprinted in
Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West: The Best of NOLA
NOLA:
"Boss Rustler: The Life and Crimes of John Kinney."
True West, 43 (9-10)
(September, 1996, 14-21 and October,1996, 12-19.)
“Perchance to Dream: What About The Kid’s Grave?”
Los Amigos, LCHT Newsletter
January, 1997. 3-4.
“How an Englishman Became an Expert on the
Book Talk,
and reprinted in
Literary
NMBL and
“John Kinney: A Postscript”
True West 44 (2) February, 1997. 12-13.
“Van C. Smith: `A Very Companionable Gentleman.’”
“Who Killed Morris Bernstein? Murder and Mystery at Blazer’s Mill.”
“The Saga of the Kid Butcher Knife.”
BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette 10 (1) (Oct. 1997)
Introduction to
Gunsmoke in
“Billy The Kid’s Schoolteacher: The Life of Mary Richards.”
BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette 11(1) (Oct 1998) 6-8.
“The Saga of the San Augustine Ranch.”
True West 46 (6) (June 1999) 43-52.
and excerpted in
“Blazer’s Mill: The Gunfight Revisited”
Old West 35 (1) (Fall, 1999) 10-15.
“The Private Life of Billy the Kid.”
True West 47 (7) (July 2000). 32-39.
“Gunfighter Mythology:
Billy the Kid:“Print The Legend.”
(contributor with Daniel Buck & Anne Meadows ‘Butch & Sundance’, Leon C. Metz ‘J. W. Hardin’,
Robert De Arment ‘Bat Masterson’ and Karen Holliday Tanner ‘Doc Holliday’)
True West 47 (8) (August 2000)
“First Blood: Another Look at the Killing of ‘Windy’ Cahill.”
BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette 13 (1), (Nov. 2000) 2-4.
“Billy Hits Tascosa: A Lost Chapter in a Short Life.”
and
“Train Showdown”
True West 49 (7) (October, 2002) 22-26, 68-71.
“
NOLA Quarterly 26 (4) (Oct-Dec 2002) 15-28.
“Johnny Burke” 1908-1964
“Sammy Cahn” (Samuel Cohen) 1913-1993
“Lorenz Milton Hart” 1895-1943
“Cole Porter” 1893-1964
Biographical Profiles for
“American Song Lyricists 1920-2000”
The Dictionary of American Literary Biography.
“Billy the Kid: The Last Sighting”
BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette, 15 (1) (Winter, 2002-2003) 6-7.
“Shootout at Blazer’s Mill”
(research and background material)
True West 50 (3) (April 2002) 48-51
“The Hunting of Billy the Kid”
Wild
“Here He Lies.”
Western Outlaw & Lawman Association (WOLA) The Journal 12 (1). (Spring 2003) 35-50.
"Grave Matters: The Tunstall Family Reunion"
LCHS Newsletter, Summer 2003
(as “John Tunstall’s Marker Found”)
NOLA Newsletter 29 (2) February 15, 2004.
Foreword to
Revenge—And Other True Tales of the West
“Maurice
NOLA Newsletter 30 (1) January 15, 2005.
Also in
BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette, 2004/2005
“Way Out East.”
Western Outlaw & Lawman Association (WOLA) The Journal 14 (3) (Fall, 2005). 20-24
“Wild West Conquers
True West 52 (10) Nov/Dec 2005. 35-39
“She Taught the Kid a Lesson”: The Life of Mary Richards
True West 53 (4) May, 2006 51-53.
“What the Brits are Doing for the West”
True West 54 (2) Jan/Feb 2007.62-84
“Billy the Kid Country”
Captions for two-page map (40-41)
and photographs for a feature on White Oaks, NM
Wild West Magazine 20 (2) February, 2007.
“Best Reads – and They Aren’t All Westerns.”
True West 54 (8) August, 2007. 35-37.
“The Escape of ‘The Kid!’”
Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association Journal, XVI (4) Winter, 2007.
“What History Has Taught Me”
True West 55 (4) April 2008. 120.
“How to Get Rich Buying Books.”
True West 55 (8) August, 2008. 29-33.
“The Full Monty:
Wild West History Association Journal 1(6) December, 2008. 3-12.
Introduction to
“When Billy met Curly”
Wild West History Association Journal 2(6) December, 2009. 30-32.
"Tascosa: Hell Town of the Texas Panhandle"
and
"Tascosa's Grave Situation: In and Out of Boot Hill."
Wild West Magazine 23 (4) December, 2010. 52-59 “So, Who Was Dan Dedrick?” True West 58 (6) June 2011. 34-35
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Other published work:
Editor and publisher
The English Westerners Brand Book and Tally Sheet
(monthly)
1954-1960
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Co-publisher and editor
The Gee Report
(fortnightly)
March, 1971 - September, 1974.
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Columnist:
(fortnightly)
"My Week, and Welcome To It."
The Bookseller,
November, 1988 - March, 1991.
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Journalism
Newspapers:
The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, Sunday Times Colour Supplement, The Times.
Magazines:
The Author, The Bookseller, Book Talk, Buchmarkt (Germany), Gerrards Cross Magazine, Miracles, Paperback Buyer, Penthouse, Publishers Weekly (US), Publishing News, Punch, Reader’s Digest, Smiths Trade News ,The Spectator, True West, WWHA Journal, Wild West.
