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Mr. Capra Stays Home
On Frank Capra's ordinary heroes and circles of influence.
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Bridge to Trouble: Table of Contents
About the book and navigation page
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Adventure is Out There
My two cents' worth of contribution to the "men don't read" discourse
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"But What Will People Think?"
Detectives and disgrace in Victorian fiction
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter X
The familiar glint was in his eye. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were daring me.”
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter X
The familiar glint was in his eye. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were daring me.”
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter IX
“I’d rather overestimate our friends back there than underestimate them. At the very least, they’re armed, and we’re not.”
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter VIII
Automatically, I swung the flashlight down to my right, and my thumb flicked the switch—on—off. And something drove the all breath hard from my lungs…
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter VII
“Why not?” said Keith. “It’s the way I prefer to live. I struck a bargain with myself a while back that I was going to find the fun in everything that…
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Fiction

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Red Rosy Bush
A humorous flash fiction
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Delayed Deposit: Part II
The second and final part of a Western short story
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Delayed Deposit: Part I
Part one of two of a Western short story
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In Print: "Nighthawk"
A new short story in Go West magazine
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The Round-Up: August 2025
A monthly miscellany of interesting links and tidbits
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter IX
“I’d rather overestimate our friends back there than underestimate them. At the very least, they’re armed, and we’re not.”
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New Release: Follow the Lonesome Trail
An exciting new multi-author Western anthology is now available.
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter VIII
Automatically, I swung the flashlight down to my right, and my thumb flicked the switch—on—off. And something drove the all breath hard from my lungs…
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter VII
“Why not?” said Keith. “It’s the way I prefer to live. I struck a bargain with myself a while back that I was going to find the fun in everything that…
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter VI
"Are you out of your mind, or do you just enjoy giving that impression?”
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The Alternate-History Book Lists
The best books I read through the years...with hindsight
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter V
I tried to picture his face if one of our attempts did pan out some visible flecks of gold—not improbable in this country. That would certainly make…
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The Round-Up: July 2025
A monthly miscellany of interesting links and tidbits
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter IV
“You didn’t ask me to help, you told me I was helping,” I said with some asperity. “What else can I do, when you tell me my home is crawling with…
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Bridge to Trouble: Chapter III
I didn’t say what I was thinking, which was that on this particular stretch of mountainside it was very unlikely that a boulder, let alone more than…
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Land of Hills and Valleys
A classic murder mystery set in 1930s Wyoming
Bridge to Trouble
A romantic-suspense adventure novella set in the Montana mountains of 1920
A Sidekick's Tale
A hilarious Western screwball comedy of family feuds and fearsome aunts
The Mrs. Meade Mysteries
Short cozy historical mysteries featuring a lady detective in Edwardian-era Colorado
Historical Fairytales
Cinderella on the prairie, Red Riding Hood among outlaws...fairytales retold historically
The Smoking Iron and Other Stories
Classic Western short stories
Wanderlust Creek and Other Stories
More Western short stories
Outlaw Fever: Five Western Stories
Still more Western short stories
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