Bio: Phil Dunlap is the author of four previous Western novels. A life-long fan of Western literature, he writes with an eye toward making readers feel they are on the frontier at a time when hardship and danger were the daily fare. The author brings his extensive experience as a journalist to the task of creating characters that are real and believable. Dunlap has been writing professionally for twenty-five years, having been published in such magazines as Plane & Pilot, Sport Aviation, and Indiana Business, as well as being a correspondent for The Indianapolis Star, a Gannett daily newspaper.