Louis L’Amour was one of the most famous Western storytellers of the twentieth century. The author of 89 novels, 14 collections of short stories, and 2 works of nonfiction, he was a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal and North Dakota’s Roughrider Award, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan. By the time he passed away in 1988, his books had sold more than 200 million copies.
William W. Johnstone is the #1 bestselling Western writer in America and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hundreds of books, with over 50 million copies sold. Born in southern Missouri, he was raised with strong moral and family values by his minister father and tutored by his schoolteacher mother. He left school at fifteen to work in a carnival and then as a deputy sheriff before becoming a full-time writer.