About the Author

Western Heritage Award and three-time Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards was the author of over 100 acclaimed westerns. He spent his youth in Arizona and worked as a rancher, auctioneer, rodeo announcer, and TV anchor before he moved to writing full time, going on to become the only author ever to win two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America in one year (2007). He received his third Spur Award for The Mustanger and the Lady, which was adapted into the film "Painted Woman." An inductee of the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame, Dusty was also the recipient of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction and was honored by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2009. He was a member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the International Professional Rodeo Association, and served on the local PRCA rodeo board.

Reviews

Praise for Dusty Richards and His Novels
 
"Dusty Richards is the embodiment of the Old West.” —Storyteller Magazine

“Will keep you in suspense as Chet’s adventures in business and law continue to grow.” —Roundup Magazine on Valley of Bones
 
"Dusty Richards is a throwback to the great Western storytellers of the good ol' days—Zane Grey, Max Brand, Ernest Haycox and Luke Short—but is all original. He knows his cowboys, knows the West, and always tells a rip-snorting story." —Johnny D. Boggs
 
“Dusty Richards is an all-around top hand at Western writing.” —John D. Nesbitt, author of Raven Springs, Trouble at the Redstone, and others
 
"When I want to read a Western writer who makes the West come alive, I pick up a Dusty Richards novel. Dusty stakes readers into the real West at full gallop." —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author