Matthew P. Mayo is an award-winning author of thirty books and dozens of short stories. His novel, Tucker's Reckoning, won the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Western Novel, and his short stories have been Spur Award and Peacemaker Award finalists. His many novels include The Outfit: To Hell and Back; North of Forsaken; Winters' War; Wrong Town; Hot Lead, Cold Heart; The Hunted; Shotgun Charlie, and others.
Matthew's numerous nonfiction books include the best-selling Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears; Haunted Old West, and Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen. He has been an on-screen expert for a popular BBC-TV series about lost treasure in the American West, and has had three books optioned for film.
Matthew and his wife, photographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, run Gritty Press (www.GrittyPress.com) and rove the byways of North America in search of hot coffee, tasty whiskey, and high adventure. For more information, drop by Matthew's Web site at www.MatthewMayo.com.
