Artist & Writer C R Strahan has studied Wyoming history for more than three decades and was research assistant to the late frontier historian Thomas M. Tisdale, whose ancestors fought on both sides of Wyoming's Cattle War and are the subject of The Roan Maverick. Strahan has lived in the American West from New Mexico to the Pacific Northwest, with a quarter century in Colorado. She writes of conflict and controversy on the canvas of the western landscape, painting stories of family where money meets nature, cultures collide, and personal values are called into question. Her first novel The Roa...