Tom W. Blackburn – författare

HER LOVE SENT HIM FROM WHAT SHE THOUGHT WAS WAR TO WHAT SHE THOUGHT WAS PEACE"e;Action-packed!"e; —Montgomery Advertiser"e;Gunfights, fast action, and the story of a man, a woman, and a town. If you like a Western tale by a writer who knows the West as well as the spirit of its people, this is a treat. A real humdinger."e; —Tulsa WorldHe ducked a Texas showdown for a woman—but trouble followed him to another lawless hell. Steve Lewellyn was a loner, a drifter, a man who wore his gun low on the hip and was ready to use it. He knew the short-grass country and knew the only way to survive was to draw faster than the next man. Then he met Sharon, who had no use for a man who was sure to end up with a bullet in his back and suddenly Steve was willing to give up his land, his liberty and his guns just to have her.So Steve rode North, alone, to change his ways. But the ruthless hunger for cattle, land and power went beyond the Texas border. Trouble—and the girl—followed Lewellyn. And when he rode into a small Kansas town, a welcome of blazing lead was already in the cards. Sharon hadn't planned on a lot of things—least of all asking the man she'd converted to peace to pick up his gun and start shooting...."e;Short Grass is more than just a Western. It relates the method used in land grabs in the West during the 1870s, when unscrupulous cattle barons could seize vast empires of grazing land, through the medium of boughten guns."e; —Los Angeles Daily News"e;Tom W. Blackburn, born on a New Mexico ranch and with a background of adventure crammed into his youth, has been writing about the old West for 10 years. Short Grass is a tale of conflict between the shipping town of Brokenbow and a ruthless big rancher's epochal struggle to dominate it. Instead of the usual formula, the plot builds with a convincing inevitability through the growth and clash of characters who live and think and act like real people. Mr. Blackburn's narrative style is excellent; colorful, incisive, vigorous."e;  —Pasadena Star-News