Although many of Randall Parrish's book are about the Old West, he was a Midwesterner born in Rose Cottage in Kewanee, Illinois. After graduating from law school, he joined a firm in Wichita, Kansas, and eventually became city attorney. Switching career, he became a reporter with the Rocky Mountain News, the start of a long career with various newspapers. While working with the Associated Press, he published his first work of fiction, When Wilderness Was King. Numerous popular novels followed. Howard Lowell Osterman has a fondness for westerns, science fiction and horror fiction. Raised in the...