Joel H. Bernstein, a writer and working cowboy from Peralta, New Mexico, has written books and magazine articles about ranching and cowboys in the modern West. He has taught, written, rodeoed, and cowboyed in Wyoming, Montana, and New Mexico. Georgia-born Tom Bryant, founder of Horse and Rider and Rocky Mountain Rider magazines, began his writing career after a "cowboy wreck" in Montana kept him out of the saddle for long enough to finish a story. His work has appeared widely in print and broadcast.