James D. Best

“A mine is a hole in the ground, owned by a liar.” Mark Twain I recently saw a college friend for the first time in decades. He see...

Recently I tweeted an article I wrote about the Old West. Many people have weighed in on what the American frontier was really about. I thi...

I've written ten books and contributed to another five. Millions of words, all typed with two fingers. I would have learned to touch typ...

New review of Wanted II by the Western Fiction Review . This is a U.K. based website and it's great to get some overseas exposure. ...

Book covers are a big deal. People really do judge a book by its cover. The Steve Dancy Tales always use black and white photos with o...

Crossing the Animas is available for the Kindle. The print format will along shortly. Center Point plans to publish the large print library...

Wanted II is now available for pre-order at Amazon . Again, the book includes a Steve Dancy short story. This was a fun one for me. Steve is...

Jenny's Revenge is now available in print , ebook , large print , and audio formats. Joe Formichella reads Jenny's Revenge ....

I like westerns and I like Quentin Tarantino films, so I had high expectation when I rented The Hateful Eight . Bummer. It's not ...

Snake in the Grass A Steve Dancy Tale A lone wrangler with a fine herd of horses goes berserk in the middle of nowhere.  Steve D...

I write novels. Seven and counting. (Plus six nonfiction books, if I include my ghost writing assignments.) I’ve previously written only on...

Historic U.S. Route 395 For my birthday we ran up from San Diego to Gardnerville, Nevada. We stopped overnight in Santa Clarita to pi...

I moved to Omaha last year, so I found this 1877 article from the Omaha Herald interesting. For those who loath TSA, tiny seats,...

The first two novels in the Steve Dancy Tales were narrated by Rusty Nelson. I hope you’ve had the opportunity to listen to Rusty’s e...

Mark Bonner edits great tributes to western films. Previously, I posted his video, Westerns Forever . As an amateur film maker, I know these...

Honest westerns filled with dishonest characters. My son reads magazines and listens to books. He doesn’t have a lot of time for...

Pioneer Courage Park, Omaha Nebraska Amy Athey McDonald has published an article in Yale News titled: On gunfights, U.S. colonialism, ...

Honest Westerns ... filled with dishonest characters. At long last, Jenny's Revenge is available ... at least in e-book formats. T...

We finally decided on a cover for Jenny’s Revenge , A Steve Dancy Tale . During the course of our selection, I found an interesting ar...

I just returned from a week of skiing at Heavenly overlooking Lake Tahoe. Judging by the price of lift tickets, there’s gold on them th...