SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST

SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #210—THE WORLDWIDE WEST TOUR: ENGLAND PART 2

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0800

Welcome back, buckaroos, for the second part of our Six-Gun Justice Podcast's Worldwide West Tour visit to England. Join host Paul Bishop as he chats with British Western wordslinger Andrew McBride about all things Western with a British twist...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #209—THE WORLDWIDE WEST TOUR: ENGLAND PART 1

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Howdy, cowpokes... It's tea time on the range as the Six-Gun Justice Podcast returns to its Worldwide West Tour with a stop in Ol' Blighty... Join host Paul Bishop and his special guest David Whitehead (aka bestselling Western wordslinger Ben Bridges) as they face down a violent gang of Piccadilly Cowboys and then delve even further into the extensive history of the many indigenous Westerns spawned on British shores...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #208—1876:THE YEAR OF THE GUN

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Get them spurs jangling, wranglers, 'cause today's episode is gonna take us back to the year 1876, when the West was truly wild and legends roamed the frontier. Join host Paul Bishop as he chats with Steve Wiegand, author of 1876: The Year of the Gun, about Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, Custer and more...It's gonna be a rootin', shootin', good time...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #207—STEVE HOLLAND, COWBOY

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Boy, howdy, so many of those great vintage Western paperback we'd all run an Apache gauntlet to own and read had one thing in common—the likeness of action model Steve Holland on the covers...Today, Six-Gun Justice Podcast, host Paul Bishop is joined by special guest Michael Stradford author of Steve Holland: Cowboy, a just released compendium featuring Steve Holland's influence on our conception of the heroic cowboy...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #206—THE WORLDWIDE WEST TOUR: AUSTRALIA PART 2

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

G'day, cowpokes...It's time to lasso your kangaroo down, mate, as the Six-Gun Justice Podcast's Worldwide West Tour continues its stop in the Land Down Under. Join host Paul Bishop and his special guest, Australian pulp maven Crocodile Andrew Nette as they go walkabout across the Outback in search of Kangaroo Westerns...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #205—THE WORLDWIDE WEST TOUR: AUSTRALIA PART 1

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Put some shrimp on the barbie, pick up your didgeridoo, and grab a cold can of Fosters as the Six-Gun Justice Podcast's Worldwide West Tour stops in the Land Down Under for a look at the massive body of indigenous Australian Westerns produced by homegrown print publishers—such as Cleveland, Horowitz, and others—along with the fistful of Kangaroo Cowboy wordslingers who gunned Western stories down by the hundreds...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #204—THE WORLDWIDE WEST TOUR: GERMANY PART 2

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0700

Tip yer' chairs back and hook yer' boots over the hitchin' rail as it's time for another episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast... Join the virtual posse as head wrangler Paul Bishop gets back on the trail of the Worldwide West with Part 2 of of the tour's stop in Germany, where he'll be chatting with German wordslinger Alfred Wallon, author of over 200 German language Westerns...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #203—THE WORLDWIDE WEST TOUR: GERMANY PART 1

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Round up ye'r broncs and cool ye'r spurs for another episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast...Westerns are a genuine American art form, but that hasn't stopped the rest of the world from telling an amazing slew of their own wild west tales. These are often written by wordslingers who have never set foot on American shores, let alone been west of the Mississippi...For the next few episodes, podcast host Paul Bishop and various special guests will be riding the whirlwind we're calling the Worldwide West Tour. First stop: Germany Part 1...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #202—WESTERN COMICS AROUND THE GLOBE

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Rein them horses in, sidewinders, it's time to listen in as Six-Gun Justice host Paul Bishop chews the barbed wire with his guests Chris Conway and Antoinette Sol about the impact of Western comics around the globe...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #201—HEROES OF THE BORDERLANDS PART 2

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700

All-righty, cowpokes...It's time to grab yer' pencil stubs, haul yer' writing tablets out of yer' saddlebags, and settle in for some learnin' as Six-Gun Justice Podcast co-host Paul Bishop gets some smart lecturing from Professor Christopher Conway on the influence of the American Western in Mexican films comics and popular culture in part two of Heroes of the Borderlands...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #200—HEROES OF THE BORDERLANDS PART 1

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Step into the stirrup and saddle up for the 200th episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast. To celebrate, your host Paul Bishop is joined by his special guest Professor Christopher Conway for part one of an in-depth look at the Heroes of the Borderlands and the impact of the Western genre in Mexico and Latin America...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #199—RIDING THE DARK RANGE WITH RANDI SAMUELSON-BROWN

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Toss your reins over the hitchin' post, buckaroos, and lend an ear as Six-Gun Justice Podcast host Paul Bishop is joined by the new Queen of the Dark Range, Randi Samuelson-Brown...A lyrical writer known for her award nominated and compelling historical fiction, Randi has now embarked on a journey into the realm of Western noir. In Brand Chaser, the first book in her new Dark Range series, Randi has engaged her passion for storytelling to paint an unflinching portrait of the seedy underbelly of the modern-day West. Branded Graves, the second book in the Dark Range series will be released by Wolfpack Publishing in late 2022...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #198—WESTERN WORDSLINGER JEFF MARIOTTE

Mon, 30 May 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Hold your horse now, things are about to get wild! Join host Paul Bishop as he chews the barbed wire with Western wordslinger Jeff Mariotte to get the lowdown on Jeff's new Cody Cavanaugh Western series, weird Western tales of Desperados and Deathlands, the life of a tie-in writer, and believe it or not—Tarzan in the Wild West...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #197—WESTERN EPISODES OF NON-WESTERN TV SHOWS

Fri, 20 May 2022 14:00:00 -0700

Pull back on those reins, buckaroos, and slow down long enough to listen as Six-Gun Justice Podcast host Paul Bishop is joined by guest co-host Tim DeForest discuss an overlooked niche in the Western genre—Western episodes of non-Western TV shows...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #196—THE COMANCHE KID

Mon, 02 May 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Saddle up your bronc and get ready to ride into Indian Territory with the Six-Gun Justice Podcast's head wrangler Paul Bishop and his guest James Robert Daniels, author of the acclaimed first Western novel The Comanche Kid...A love child of The Searchers, Lonesome Dove, and True Grit, The Comanche Kid lives up to its hype as a candidate for best Western of the year...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #195—THE GUNS OF LEGENDE

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Circle the wagons and put the coffee pot over the campfire, it's time for a new episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast. Today, Paul is joined by Richard Prosch, who returns to the ranch and brings wordslinger Mel Odom with him to discuss their new traditional Western series, The Guns of Legende, which debuts this month on the virtual spinner racks as well as in paperback and large print editions...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #194—WESTERN TV SHOW GIMMICK GUNS

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:00:00 -0700

The horses are hitched and the stage coach is ready to hit the trail for another episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast. Join head wrangler Paul Bishop for a Gatling gun burst of Western book and movie reviews, a look at the Kids of Western comics, an overview of TV's Wanted: Dead Or Alive, and an in-depth feature on Western TV show gimmick guns...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #193—HIGH NOON SHOWDOWN: MARKLEY VS. CUTSFORTH

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Starting with this Six-Gun Justice Podcast episode, we are updating our episodic numbering system to reflect the total number of full-length episodes, speed listen installments, and conversation segments we have produced over the past two years.

In another bit og housekeeping, as the Six-Gun Justice Podcast enters its third year, we are rapidly approaching our 200th episode. However because of time commitments needed for other projects, necessity demands a switch from delivering new content twice a week to producing new episodes every other week. This will allow us to continue talking about our favorite genre, Westerns, while also freeing up time to delve into other endeavors.

For today's episode get ready to duck for cover as Paul faces down two accomplished western wordslingers, Bill Markley and Kellen Cutsforth, who can't seem to agree on anything. It's time to throw down words in a high noon showdown over the truth behind historic western personalities, incidents, and legends...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #53—WESTERN TV TIE-IN NOVELS AND NOVELIZATIONS

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0800

Head 'em up and move 'em out...It's time for another full-length episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast. Westerns on TV have almost as long a history as television itself. Stampeding across the black and white TV screens of American living rooms on every network the popularity of westerns during the ‘40s thorough the ‘60s has been fully documented, however there has been no concerted effort to document the history and the stories behind the numerous novels and novelizations tied in to these shows. Today's episode will hopefully go a long way toward filling that void, as Paul discusses the many Western TV tie-in novels he has collected over the years...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #52—LEGEND OF THE TEXAS RANGERS PART 3

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:00:00 -0800

With a "Hi-Ho, Silver, away!" (or a "Hi-Yo, Silver, away!" depending on which side of the never ending argument you fall) it's time to get ready for the latest Six-Gun Justice Podcast episode, Legend of the Texas Rangers Part 3, in which co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosh saddle up with The Lone Ranger and Tonto...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MANUELA SCHNEIDER

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday and today's Six-Gun Justice Conversation goes international as co-host Paul Bishop chats with German author and translator Manuela Schneider, whose latest novel, Arma Del Diablo: Colt of Destiny, has been recently released...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #51—LEGEND OF THE TEXAS RANGERS PART 2

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800

Shine up them badges and get your guns and horses ready to ride with Paul and Rich as they track down Episode 51 of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast—Legend of the Texas Rangers Part Two. The true life adventures of the protectors of the Lone Star State are almost as over the top as the many books, movies, and TV show adventures that pay tribute to them proving the iconic story of the Texas Rangers has provided the perfect inspiration to earn them an enduring place in pop culture...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—DON COLDSMITH'S SPANISH BIT SAGA

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800

Don Coldsmith's Spanish Bit Saga is one of the most highly regarded Western series to be told from the point of view of the early Native American plains tribes. An historical epic filled with thrilling adventures, relatable characters, and suspenseful action that drives you from book to book, the Spanish Bit Saga is the legacy of a master storyteller. In this Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen, co-host Paul Bishop digs into the man behind the series and the inspiration he drew on for his novels...

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SIX-GUN CONVERSATIONS—GUSTAVO QUADROS

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday and today's Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment is going international as Paul chats with Western scribe Gustavo Quadros from his owlhoot hideout on the pampas of Santa Catarina, Brazil. An historian and writer, Gustavo's stories alternate between suspense, historical fiction and fantasy, and now blazing six-gun action. His first Western, The Rancher, The Gunslinger, and the Devil, was released at the Rio de Janeiro Book Biennial in 2019, and the English translation is now available from Amazon in both ebook and paperback...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #50—LEGEND OF THE TEXAS RANGERS PART 1

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800

One riot, one Ranger...The holiday hiatus is over and it's time for new episodes of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast...Pin on your badge and saddle up with co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they ride hell for leather into the legends and legacy of those hardest of hard men known as the Texas Rangers...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—CHRIS ENSS REDUX

Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday! As the podcast is on hiatus until the end of the year (new episodes start January 3, 2022, we are featuring a repeat performance of our Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment in which Rich chats with Chris Enss about her book, IRON WOMEN: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad, the Unlikely Friendship of Isabella Bird and Rocky Mountain Jim, as well as the Western Writers of America's Packing the West program.

Chris Enss is a scriptwriter and comedienne who has written for television, film, and performed on cruise ships and on stage. She has worked with award-winning musicians, writers, directors, producers, and as a screenwriter for Tricor Entertainment, but her passion is for telling the stories of the men and women who shaped the history and mythology of the American West. Chris is the current president of the Western Writers of America.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—THE PICCADILLY COWBOYS AND ADULT WESTERNS REDUX

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0800

With the podcast on a short hiatus until the end of the year (new episodes beginning January 3, 2022), we are featuring a repeat performance today of our Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen in which co-host Paul Bishop tells you everything you need to know about the western genre phenomenon of the Piccadilly Cowboys and the Adult Western sub genre...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—TERRENCE MCCAULEY REDUX

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday! As the podcast is on hiatus for the holidays, we are featuring a repeat performance of our Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment in which Paul chats with his friend, Western wordslinger Terrence McCauley, author of the Aaron Mackey westerns and several new titles under the renewed Ralph Compton banner...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #49—THE WESTERNS OF ELMORE LEONARD REDUX

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0800

While on a short hiatus for the holidays, we are featuring a repeat performance of episode ten of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast , in which Paul and Rich take on the novels and film adaptations of Elmore Leonard's amazing Westerns...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—JUSTIN MARRIOTT REDUX

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday! With the podcast on hiatus for the holidays (new episodes coming January 3, 2022), we are featuring a repeat performance of our Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment in which co-host Paul Bishop chats across the pond with publishing maven Justin Marriott, editor of Hot Lead—the fanzine of vintage Western paperbacks...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—WESTERN FANZINES REDUX

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 05:00:00 -0800

Time to get your Western cosplay on and geek out cowboy style as co-host Paul Bishop tracks down the best in Western fiction magazines, non-fiction magazines, and Western fanzines...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—THOMAS RIZZO REDUX

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday! As the podcast is on hiatus for the holidays, we are featuring a repeat performance of our Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment in which Rich talks with Thomas Rizzo, one of the most passionate and hardworking writers in today’s community of Western scribes.

From his web site, www.tomrizzo.com, Tom offers a multitude of stories. Subscribers to Tom's newsletter enjoy his quick snippets of forgotten history, entertaining and always education short reads, first thing every weekday morning.

Tom has four nonfiction titles available, and one novel, Last Stand at Bitter Creek. It’s about a burned-out Union Army spy by the name of Grant Bonner who wants to get back to civilian life and resume his career after the Civil War. Highly recommended.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE #48—FARGO & SUNDANCE REDUX

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0800

While on a short hiatus for the holidays, today we are featuring a repeat performance of episode seven of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast , in which Paul and Rich discuss one of their favorite Western wordslingers, Ben Haas—aka: John Benteen—and his seminal series creations for Belmont Tower books, Fargo and Sundance...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—PRESTON LEWIS REDUX

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday! As the podcast is on hiatus for the holidays, we are featuring a repeat performance of our Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment in which Paul talks with Preston Lewis, Spur winning author of the H.H. Lomax series and many other westerns...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—TRUE GRIT REDUX

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0800

While on a short hiatus for the holidays, today we are featuring a repeat performance of our Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen in which co-host Paul Bishop discusses everything you need to know about True Grit—the novel and the movies—in under fifteen minutes...

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SIX-GUN CONVERSATIONS—STUART ROSEBROOK / HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0800

Joining Rich for this Six-Gun Justice Conversations segment—which is especially designed with holiday gift giving in mind—is the editor of True West magazine, Stuart Rosebrook. A son of the American West, Stuart grew up in North Hollywood, California, but spent most of the summers of his youth at the Orme’s Quarter Circle V-Bar Ranch Camp in northern Arizona. He has been a featured writer for Arizona Highways, Ranch and Reata, American Cowboy, and Camera & Darkroom. He was also a commentator for the John Wayne 100th Birthday DVD Edition of True Grit. Most recently, he assisted his late father, Jeb Rosebrook, publish his memoir, Junior Bonner: The Making of a Classic with Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen in the Summer of 1971.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 47—RIDING THE 3:10 TO YUMA REDUX

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0800

While on a short hiatus for the holidays, we are featuring a repeat performance of episode six of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast , in which Paul and Rich pit the original 3:10 to Yuma (1957) against the 2007 remake, and dip their toes into Wild Wild West, Legend, Brisco County, Jr. and the beginnings of the Steampunk sub-genre...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—CHUCK DIXON REDUX

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday, and since it has really been the Wild West recently around the Six-Gun Justice corral, today we are rerunning our very first Six-Gun Justice Conversation installment from May 6, 2020, in which co-host Paul Bishop downs some bad whiskey and pickled pigs feet along with comic book legend and western lover Chuck Dixon...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—DALE EVANS

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0800

Get on down that happy trail, y'all...It's time for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen as Paul is joined by Western Writers of America President Chris Enss to talk about the cowgirl code established by the Queen of the West her own self, Dale Evans, another of the great Wild Women of the West.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MIKE COX

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday. In today's Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Paul chats with Mike Cox, the best-selling author of a two volume history of the Texas Rangers. A native Texan, Mike began his newspaper career in 1967, reviewing Texas related books for the San Angelo standard times. Since then, he has written 35 non-fiction books and hundreds of magazine articles, newspaper, columns, and essays. An elected member of the Texas Institute of letters, he currently lives in the Texas hill country...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 46—BILLY THE KID PART 2

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0800

Stone killer, misunderstood reluctant gunman, or avenger of the downtrodden, which one is the real Billy the Kid, or can the baby-faced outlaw ride all three horses? Find out when you join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch for Six-Gun Justice Podcast Episode #46, Riding The Owlhoot Trail With Billy the Kid Part Two...

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SIX-GUN CONVERSATIONS—DOUG HOCKING

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Joining Six-Gun Justice co-host Richard Prosch for this edition of Wild West Wednesday is something of a Renaissance man...Doug Hocking served in the US Army Military Intelligence branch as well as the Armored Cavalry. He spent many years in the Far East, speaks fluent Chinese, holds advanced degrees in American History, Social Anthropology, and Historical Archaeology, and is the winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award and the Co-founders Award from Westerners International for his novel Terror on the Santa Fe Trail: Kit Carson and the Jicarilla Apache, which was also a Western Writers of America Spur Award finalist...

Although his roots are in Cornwall and New England, Doug Hocking grew up on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in North Central New Mexico, the Rio Arriba where he still maintains close ties to friends, Paisano and Indio. It is a land of mystery, miracles, and Penitentes. His Tom Jeffords: Friend of Co-Cochise, a biography was also a Spur Award Finalist. He has twice been awarded the Danielson Prize for best program.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—BEN JOHNSON

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Head 'em up and move 'em out to make way for the latest Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. This time out co-host Paul Bishop is joined by Arizona State Historian Marshall Trimble to talk about Trimble's longtime friendship with actor Ben Johnson, the cowboy's cowboy...All in under thirty minutes, give or take...

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SIX-GUN CONVERSATIONS—LYNN ELDRIDGE

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and Western romance takes over the bunkhouse as co-host Richard Prosh two-steps with author Lynn Eldridge, former president of the West Virginia Chapter of Romance Writers of America and whose latest historical and
romance novel, Tame the Wild will hit the virtual spinner racks in December... Currently the Director of Clinical Services, Lynn is also a licensed clinical therapist in an outpatient behavioral health facility in Charleston, West Virginia...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 45—BILLY THE KID PART 1

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Load your Colts and grab your Winchesters for Episode 45 of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast... Join Co-Hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch and they face down the history and pop culture impact of the baby-faced killer known as Billy the Kid...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MARSHALL TRIMBLE

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Set your Stetson straight and get ready to join co-host Paul Bishop for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation...Joining Paul today is the man referred to as the Will Rogers of Arizona—Marshall Trimble.

Since 1997, Marshall has been Arizona's official state historian and goodwill representative. He is the author of over 25 books on Arizona history and other Western subjects. He writes regularly contributes articles to True West magazine to go along with his monthly column, Asked the Marshall...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—HELLBENDERS HISTORY PART 2

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's time once again to ride hell for leather into a new Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen. Join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch for another conversation about the deadly gunplay, the great characters, the fast action, and the history behind the second two books in Rich's new Western series, Hellbenders, and get ready to rope your next great read...

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SIX-GUN CONVERSATIONS—BILL MARKLEY

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 02:00:00 -0700

Make sure your spurs is sharp and shiny as it's time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Join co-host Richard Prosch as he chats with historian, actor, historian, and Western wordslinger Bill Markley...

History, especially American history, and travel have fascinated Bill Markley since he was a boy growing up on the family farm in Pennsylvania. Moving to Pierre, South Dakota in 1976 to work for the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources was a natural fit for Markley, where he immersed himself in local history and participated in Civil War and Western frontier reenacting. Markley has been in films such as Dances With Wolves, Son of the Morning Star, Far and Away, Gettysburg, and Crazy Horse. He worked in Antarctica, traveled the South Pacific, kayaked and backpacked in Alaska, chaperoned a Boy Scout troop to Japan, and has camped, hiked, and rode horseback through the West. He writes for South Dakota Magazine, Roundup, True West, and Wild West.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 44—JESSE JAMES PART 2

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Anytime you're hanging pictures on the wall of the bunkhouse, make sure there ain't no lowdown coward like Robert Ford creepin' up behind 'ya like he did to Jesse... For more tips on surviving the owlhoot trail join co-hosts Paul Bishop And Richard Prosch for episode forty-four of the Six-gun Justice Podcast, Jesse James Part Two...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—REG QUIST

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0700

The chores is done and it's time to come in off the range and listen to another Six-Gun Justice Conversation...Joining co-host Paul Bishop from Canada is Reg Quist, currently one of the most popular writers of Christian Westerns...Quist began writing after he retired from a career in construction and more time became available...Northward To Home: A Historical Christian Western, which is the second novel in his bestselling Just John series, is due to be released by Wolfpack Publishing's ‎Christian imprint, CKN, and is already burning up the charts on pre-orders alone...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—COWBOYS AND DINOSAURS

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0700

If you think you've got enough problems rounding up cows, partner, then you best sit down and listen up to the latest Six-Gun Justice Podcast Speed Listen as co-host Paul Bishop pulls in Six-Gun Justice Deputy Tim Deforest to talk about the problems of cowboys and dinosaurs...Ever try to rope and allosaurus? Believe me you don't even want to try...

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SIX-GUN CONVERSATIONS—J.R. SANDERS

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0700

Hang on to your saddle horn buckaroos, it's time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Join co-host Richard Prosch as he chats with Western author J.R. Sanders, whose fascination with the Wild West dates back to his Kansas roots and was encouraged by his childhood visits to the Dalton Gang hideout, Abilene, and Dodge City. His interest in crime dates back to his days as a police officer and a private investigator. His nonfiction articles regularly appear in magazines such as Law & Order and Wild West, and he is a member of the Western Writers of America and Western Fictioneers...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 43—JESSE JAMES PART 1

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Check them wanted posters, partner as it's time to hit the owlhoot trail with Six-Gun Justice co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as the go in pursuit of the man, the myth, the murderous legend known as Jesse James (Part 1)...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—SCOTT D. PARKER

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment as co-host Paul Bishop chats with western wordslinger Scott D. Parker, author of the Calvin Carter Railroad Detective series. His new book, The Sunset Express is co-written with Edward A. Grainger, in which both authors' popular western characters cross paths...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—HELLBENDERS HISTORY PART 1

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Get ready to fan your trigger and enter the fray in this Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. Get ready to ride hell for leather along with co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they talk about the deadly gunplay, the great characters, the fast action, and the history behind Rich's new Western series, Hellbenders, and get ready to rope your next great read...

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SIX-GUN CONVERSATIONS—CASEY COWAN

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0700

It's time for another Wild West Wednesday Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Today podcast co-host Richard Prosch interviews Saddelbag Dispatches' graphic design editor Casey Cowan...

Casey has worked in and around the journalism, artistic, and literary fields for twenty-five years as a reporter, photographer and graphic designer....In 2013, he helped co-found Oghma Creative Media, a publishing company built around the idea of authors and artists banding together as a team to take control of and market their work effectively. This, in turn, led to a partnership with the late Western wordslinging icon Dusty Richards. In 2014, they co-founded Saddlebag Dispatches, a twice-yearly magazine dedicated to the spirit and legacy of the Old West through fiction, poetry, culture, and history.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 42—WESTERN LIGHTNING PART TWO

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Whoa, there! Don't let that team of yoked horses runaway with the stagecoach. Slow 'em down as it's time to listen to as the Six-Gun Justice Podcast presents part two of Western Lightning. In this episode, co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch go dashing across the frontier protecting the stagecoach strongboxes of Wells Fargo while exploring the associated movies, books, TV shows connected to the iconic stageline...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—PETER BRANDVOLD

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment in which co-host Paul Bishop locks horns with one of the wildest desperados on the range, Mean Pete Brandvold, whose books appear on most Western readers' most wanted lists...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Wrap the reins of your four-legged hay burner round the hitchin' post and set yourself down for the latest Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment...Today, co-host Paul Bishop explores the history of Stan Jones, the unassuming Death Valley National Park ranger who wrote and composed possibly the most iconic western song to twang from a six-string guitar—Ghost Riders In The Sky...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—KALEN JOHNSON

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday once again...In today's Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, co-host Richard Prosch talks with Kalen Vaughan Johnson, author of Robbing the Pillars. Kalen is a historical fiction writer living in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in mass media, before going to work in television for the next eight years.

A voracious reader, Kalen grew up on the greats of historical fiction, including James Michener, Leon Uris, James Clavell, Larry McMurtry, Pat Conroy, Colleen McCullough, Edward Rutherford, and Ken Follett. These stories and a fascination with history, particularly the 1800’s and the American frontier, moved her to write.

Kalen's latest book, Raid of Souls, which is the second book in her Empire Barons series, is available now.

Find more at http://kalenvaughanjohnson.com

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 41—WESTERN LIGHTNING PART ONE

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Hold onto your Stetsons, cowpokes, it's time for another whirlwind episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast...Join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch for Western Lto ghtning Part One as they ride with the Pony Express and gallop along on the Wells Fargo stagelines...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—KEN PRATT

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Saddle up, cowpunchers, it's Wild West Wednesday again and time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation. In this segment, co-host Paul Bishop chats with one of today's bestselling writers of Christian Westerns, Ken Pratt, author of the Willow Falls series featuring U.S. Deputy Marshall Matt Bannister...Ken was raised in the small farming community of Dayton, Oregon, where he learned the value of having a strong work ethic. Applying what he learned, he wrote late at night for seven years to complete the first novel in his Matt Bannister series, Willow Falls, while working a full time day job and raising a family with his wife, Cathy.

Ken writes about real life issues in a western setting in the rough and wild Pacific Northwest. His Matt Bannister series is now eleven books strong, and while Ken enjoys writing, he also writes with a purpose—to show how God works in our lives even when we do not see it until we look back. He states, I do not write to be a best seller or for wealth, I write to bring hope into the lives of the hopeless and encourage the disheartened through the lives of the characters and God's providence in my stories. There is always 'Hope' and that is the purpose of my books.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—CALAMITY JANE

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Button up yer long johns and snap yer braces, it's time for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. Hit the trail with co-host Paul Bishop and his guest Chris Enss as they take aim at one of the West's wildest women—Calamity Jane...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—JEFFERSON GLASS

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment as Rich visits with Spur Award-winning author, Jefferson Glass... A relentless researcher with specific interest in the Rocky Mountain and Northern Plains regions of the United States, Jeff's 2014 book, Reshaw–The Life and Times of John Baptiste Richard, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of the year by the Wyoming Historical Society, and received the prestigious Spur Award for Best First Non-Fiction Book from the Western Writers of America. His latest book is Empire: The Pioneer Legacy of an American Ranch Family...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 40—THE LEGEND OF BUFFALO BILL PART 2

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's time to hang on to your saddle horn and prepare to get your Wild West extravaganza on as Six-Gun Justice Podcast co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch ride the range for Part 2 of The Legend of Buffalo Bill...

02:10 — Paul explores history at his Leisure —with the company’s Golden West Series.

05:32 — Buffalo Bill’s legend takes shape

06:54 — On the Vengeance Trail after the battle at Little Big Horn

08:15 — A Visit West (In Three Hours)

10:07 — Annie Oakley and the Lady Sureshots

11:00 — Heroes rise…and heroes fall

11:29 — Rich reviews Young Buffalo Bill (1949)

13:11 — Paul rides with Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952) and Pony Express (1953)

13:45 — Rich admits Buffalo Bill (1944) is kinda-sorta historically accurate, except when it isn’t

15:25 — Paul pans Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

18:11 — The books of Edwin L. Sabin

21:56 — Paul brings us up to date with Hickock and Cody by Matt Braun

22:50 — Rich shares The Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill series by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

24:00 — Paul likes the well-written mystery Margret Cole’s Buffalo Bill’s Dead Now

24:39 — Rich reveals Larry McMurtry’s The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of superstardom in America

25:00 — Paul’s favorite Buffalo Bill novel, Brian Garfield’s Wild Times, isn’t about Buffalo Bill

26:30 — Bill shows up in Little Big Man Returns

28:14 — Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs

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Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—DAVID CROW

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Welcome to another Wild West Wednesday Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Today Paul talks with true crime author David Crow author of The Pale- Faced Lie, the story of his early years on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. Through grit, resilience, and a thirst for learning, he managed to escape his abusive childhood, graduate from college, and build a successful lobbying firm in Washington, DC...David is a sought-after speaker, has mentored over 200 college interns, performed pro bono service for the charitable organization Save the Children, and participated in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. An advocate for women, he donates a percentage of his royalties from The Pale-Faced Lie to the Barrett House, a homeless shelter for women in Albuquerque. David and his wife, Patty, live in the suburbs of DC.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—MAKING CUSTOM COWBOY HATS

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 03:00:00 -0700

You say your cowboy hat is dusty, battered, ill-fitting, and sweat soaked, more appropriate to be used as a portable horse trough or to fan campfire embers? Then it's time to clamp that crumpled chapeau down on your lugs and join co-host Paul Bishop and legendary custom cowboy hat maker Gene Baldwin for a lesson on the sartorial cowboy...The hat maketh the man...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—LARRY SWEAZY

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time to roll up your lariat and settle back for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment...Join co-host Richard Prosch as he talks with the very popular Western Wordslinger, Larry Sweazy...

With sixteen novels to his name, Larry has also published over eighty nonfiction articles and short stories. He's also a freelance indexer and has written indexes for over one thousand scholarly and technical books, which is the basis of his Marjorie Trumaine Mystery series. A winner of the Spur Award, the Will Rogers Medallion, and the Elmer Kelton Fiction Book of the Year award, Larry makes his home in Indiana.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 39—THE LEGEND OF BUFFALO BILL PART 1

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 03:00:00 -0700

When truth becomes legend, print the legend...Indian fighter, scout, world class horseman, Buffalo Bill was the greatest frontier showman of them all...Join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they bring to life the legend of Buffalo Bill in part one of a new episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast...

02:35 — Rich clues us in on Sam Whiskey (1969) — a quirky heist with Burt Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, and Clint Walker

05:05 — Paul explores a few western novels which push the genre envelope, including The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin.

07:45 — The Absolutely True and Genuine Tale of Buffalo Bill Cody

11:00 — What is “Autobifictionalography?”

12:25 — Rich and Paul share the high points of Bill’s life.

14:00 — Bill Cody and the Pony Express

17:46 — Cody during the Civil War and how he earned his name.

19:44 — Buffalo Bill becomes a Cavalry Scout and sets up his first show

22:00 — Enter Ned Buntline and the Dime Novels

24:00 — Prentiss Ingraham, Western word machine for Buffalo Bill

27:38 — Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs

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Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—JANE LITTLE BOTKIN

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Wild West Wednesday just got a little wilder as co-host Paul Bishop chats with Jane Little Botkin about labor strikes on the frontier, legendary lawmen, and great-grandmothers of possible ill repute...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—JANE STREET

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 03:00:00 -0700

The team is hitched up and the stage is ready to roll, so hop aboard and settle back for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. Today, co-host Paul Bishop is joined by wordslinger Jane Little Botkin, for the next in the occasional installments featuring Wild Women of the West.

Jane is renown for scouring the West for firsthand sources in family diaries, libraries, and museums in order to collect the personal narratives of American families with compelling stories of labor radicals, miners, lawmen, and outlaws in settings rich with a history that transitions into the New West. Her latest book, The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver is the story of wild west activist Jane Street—a young woman and single mother—who in 1916, in the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado’s two-year Coalfield War, took a stand to change the status quo for the girls—the domestic maids well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help, abusing them at will as they considered them as only one step above prostitutes.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MELODY GROVES

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:00:00 -0700

New Mexico native Melody Groves loves Western history. Enchanted by the area where she grew up, as a youngster she and her family explored ghost towns, which sparked her imagination. Horses, tumbleweeds, the sky, and characters who impacted the Western mystique charged through her mind. They still do. Winner of numerous writing awards, she writes for True West, Wild West, Enchantment Magazine, and New Mexico Magazine, among others. In 2018, she won the prestigious National Press Women Award for her True West Magazine article on Albuquerque’s first town marshal who got himself (justifiably) hanged.

Her novels include Border Ambush, Sonoran Rage, Arizona War, Kansas Bleeds, and Black Range Revenge. In addition, she authored She Was Sheriff and the upcoming Lady of the Law—The Maud Overstreet Saga. Her non-fiction include: Ropes, Reins and Rawhide: All About Rodeo (UNM Press); Butterfield’s Byways: America’s Longest Mail Route Across the West (History Press); Hoist a Cold One! Historic Bars of the Southwest (UNM Press); and When Outlaws Wore Badges.

She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in her spare time plays rhythm guitar with the Jammy Time Band.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 38—THE LEGEND OF CUSTER PART 2

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Grab your cavalry hat with the arrow through it and join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they charge into another episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast alongside one of the most controversial figures in the history of the West—General George Armstrong Custer—as he faces down the fate of every bad decision he ever made at the Battle of Little Big Horn...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MICHAEL GEAR & KATHERINE O'NEAL GEAR

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time to gather around the corral for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment...Today co-host Paul Bishop jaws with New York Times bestselling authors, W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. With over 17 million copies of their books in print in 29 different languages, they have recently been awarded 2021 Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature by the Western Writers of America, and are soon to be inducted in the Western Writers Hall of Fame at the McCracken Library in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. They are the first Wyoming authors and also the first co-authors to receive this honor...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—WILL HENRY / CLAY FISHER

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Sharpen up your Mexican spurs and polish those conchos running down the braid on the outside of your vaquero pant legs, as it's time for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment... Join co-host Paul Bishop as he discusses the life and legacy of Henry William 'Heck' Allen—better known as the five time Spur Award winning author of over fifty Westerns under the pseudonyms Will Henry and Clay Fisher...

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SIX-GUN CONVERSATIONS--STEVE HOCKENSMITH

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 01:00:00 -0700

Tighten up your saddle cinch and get your old cayuse ready to ride 'cause it's Wild West Wednesday and time to hit the trail with co-host Richard Prosh along with the wordslinger behind the West's funniest Watson and Sherlock and the tales of Holmes On the Range, Steve Hockensmith. And as a bonus for Six-Gun Justice listeners, Steve's making his short story ebook collection, Dear Mr. Holmes, available for free at Amazon for the next few days.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 37—THE LEGEND OF CUSTER PART 1

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Gather up the reins of your horse and gird up your courage as co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch charge into another episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast and alongside one of the most controversial figures in the history of the West, General George Armstrong Custer...Part 1 of 2...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—HOCK HOCHHEIM

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Hold on to your Stetsons, it’s Wild West Wednesday and time for a new Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Joining Paul today is Hock Hochheim, author of the exciting Johann Gunther series of Western and—sometimes—international adventures. Hock is a military veteran, a police veteran, and a martial arts expert who is entering his 25th year of teaching hand, stick, knife, and gun combatives in eleven allied countries. He is also the author of numerous how-to, non-fiction books, as well as several contemporary thrillers...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—WWA CONFERENCE

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they chat about the recent Western Writers of America conference, book hunting in Colorado, and a sideshow trip to The Buffalo Bill Museum and grave...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—TIFFANY SCHOFIELD

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Hang on to your saddle horn, it's Wild West Wednesday and time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment...Today, Rich visits with Five Star Publishing Senior Editor, Tiffany Schofield. Joining Five Star in 1999, Tiffany currently manages Five Star's front list publications as well several Large Print genre lists for Thorndike Press and Wheeler Publishing—all imprints of Cengage. Due to Tiffany's diligent efforts in rejuvenating and expanding Five Star’s Western genre imprint, the company received the Lariat Award from the Western Writers of America in 2013, was named Best Western History Book Publisher by True West Magazine in 2015, and has published many Western novels selected as award winners and finalists in various literary contests...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 36—DEATH VALLEY WESTERNS

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's the Old Ranger here telling you to make sure your canteens are full before you join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch and their Borax 20 Mule Team for a trek across the vast expanses of Death Valley in books, movies, TV, and more...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—KARI BOVEE

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Hold still now while I shoot that there cigar outta your mouth while galloping on horseback 'cause it's time to listen to another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Today's sharpshooter is wordslinger Kari Bovee who chats with Paul about the four entries in her ongoing Annie Oakley mystery series and how Little Sure Shot found herself up to her shotgun in murder...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—WILD WEST WOMEN / ANNIE OAKLEY

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 03:00:00 -0700

He-Haw! It's time for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen. Join co-host Paul Bishop as he chats with the President of the Western Writers of America about one of the best known Wild Women of the West, Annie Oakley—all in under thirty minutes...give or take...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—G. WAYNE TILMAN

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Giddyap! It's Wild West Wednesday and time for a new Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Join co-host Paul Bishop as he visits with G. Wayne Tilman whose Gun For Wells Fargo series is currently riding atop the Western bestseller lists on Amazon. Wayne’s varied background includes working as a bank security director, a deputy sheriff, a security contractor, and an FBI unit chief. These are all jobs for which his heritage has uniquely prepared him as he has a direct ancestor who was a sheriff in the new world in 1680, the lawman who brought the desperado of song fame to justice, and a mother who was a counter intelligence operative...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 35—TOWN TAMERS PART 2

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Drunken cowboys, power hungry robber barons, and violent outlaws were all in a day's job for the rawhide tough, bullet fast breed of Western men known as town tamers. It's time to hitch up your gunbelt and screw up your courage and get ready to do the 'hero strut' with co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they take on the legends of the town tamers in Part 2 of this Six-Gun Justice Podcast episode...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—RALPH ESTES

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time to gather around the bunkhouse for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment...Today, Rich talks with acclaimed writer Ralph Estes. A recognized authority on Billy the Kid, Ralph earned this acclaim by virtue of his many troubadour performances of Me and Billy for the New Mexico State Chautauqua program. His knowledge of Billy the Kid, the Lincoln County War, and the full sweep of old West history results in an articulate, but down-to-earth interview that is learned, witty, and charming. He is uniquely qualified to have written The Autobiography of Billy the Kid. His latest book is Aces & Eights: Poker in the Old West...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—CARAVAN WEST PRODUCTIONS / PETER SHERAYKO

Mon, 31 May 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Put down that anachronistic gun and holster rig and take off that too modern cavalry costume and join co-host Paul Bishop for this Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment as he rides out to a 2,400 acre Western movie ranch to track down the most authentic man in the West, Peter Sherayko...actor, collector, and provider of correct time period costumes, guns, saddles, and other props to movies from big budget (Tombstone) to low budget ventures...Put down that anachronistic gun and holster rig and take off that too modern cavalry costume and join co-host Paul Bishop for this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment as he chats with the most authentic man in the West, Peter Sherayko...actor, collector, and provider of correct time period costumes, guns, saddles, and other props to movies from big budget (Tombstone) to low budget ventures...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—LEN LEVINSON

Wed, 26 May 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time to join co-host Paul Bishop in conversation with master pulpsmith and Western wordslinger Len Levinson. The creator of the iconic WWII action series The Rat Bastards and The Sergeant, Len also wrote for or created numerous Western paperback original series—under a fistful of pseudonyms—including, The Searcher, The Apache Wars, and The Pecos Kid...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 34—TOWN TAMERS PART 1

Mon, 24 May 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Get ready to turn over your shootin' irons or face the consequences in this new full-length episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast...What does it take to tame a wide open town on the frontier—often it was only one man with a fast gun who was tough enough, fearless enough, and mean enough to get the job done. Join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they take on the legends of the town tamers in Part 1 of this two part episode...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MARK HATMAKER

Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 -0700

Stand back and give ‘em room, folks, as our co-host Richard Prosch squares off against Mark Hatmaker, otherwise known as our very own fearsome Six-Gun Samurai. Mark is the author of numerous books and instructional videos in the domain of Western martial arts—vintage boxing, classical submission wrestling, and pragmatic street defense—and also regularly pens Western reviews at westernmusings.com/ To learn more about Mark's work or to contact him visit www.extremeselfprotection.com/

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—REFURBISHING TV COWBOY GUN AND HOLSTER SETS

Mon, 17 May 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Wrap the reins of your four-legged hay burner round the hitchin' post and set yourself down for the latest Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. Join co-host Paul Bishop in the Six-Gun Justice blacksmith shop as he talks with restoration craftsman David Stanley about refurbishing TV cowboy gun and holster sets, as well as Stanley's skills at sculpting unique versions of Hartland-style figurines...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—R. G. YOHO

Wed, 12 May 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Woah, Nellybelle! It’s time to bring your Roy Rogers Jeep to a sliding halt and let the dust settle over you while you listen to another Six-gun Justice Conversation segment. Today, our co-host Richard Prosch palavers with West Virginia native Bob Yoho about his books and his passion for history and tales of the American West. Yoho is the author of the five-book Kellen Malone Western series as well as books of historical fiction and nonfiction. His varied career includes speaker, radio talk show host, political columnist, laboratory technician, and process operator in the chemicals industry. He currently resides in Ohio, and you can learn more about him at rgyoho.com/

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 33—TRAILBLAZERS PART 2

Mon, 10 May 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Put on yer buckskins and screw on yer coonskin cap and brace yourself for another full-length episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, in which co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch head out into he wilderness for Trailblazers Part 2...

01:08 — Paul reveals Daniel Boone’s Twin? Fess Parker as Davey Crockett

02:30 — Rich tracks down The Ballad of Davey Crocket

03:44 — Paul corners Davey Crockett in the movies and TV

06:10 — Paul’s focus on the Davey Crockett ‘50s mini-series

09:02 — Rich and Paul look over the wide vista of Crockett tie-ins, merchandise and spin-offs

11:50 — Paul digs into a Swamp Fox biography

12:40 — Rich and Paul target Kit Carson in pop culture

14:33 — Rich shares some background on the historic Kit Carson

18:00 — Kit Carson blazes across the silver screen and finally lands its Disney show

20:23 -- There goes the chuckwagon triangle! Time for Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—GARY GOLDSTEIN

Wed, 05 May 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time to join co-host Paul Bishop for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Today, Paul chats with editor extraordinaire Gary Goldstein, ramrod of Kensington Publishing's bestselling line of bullet blazing Westerns. Under Gary’s guidance, his wordslingers have won more than a dozen Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—WOMEN WHO WROTE THE WEST

Mon, 03 May 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Listen up, ya’ yahoos, it’s time for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. Today, co-host Paul Bishop is joined by the President of the Western Writers of America, Chris Enss, for a discussion of the early women Western wordslingers and how and why they differed from their male counterparts, all in under thirty minutes—give or take...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—NANCY PLAIN & ROCKY GIBBONS

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time to join co-host Richard Prosch for a Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment with Rocky Gibbons and Nancy Plain, editors of Why Cows Need Cowboys, the Western Writers of America’s first anthology for young readers—a collection of true tales of the West that leave textbook history in the rearview mirror and take you on a tour of twenty seldom-told dramas, the kind you might stumble across only if you leave the main road to wander the detours and byways of the American story...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 32—TRAILBLAZERS PART 1

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Now, iffin' you don't settle down, I'm a gonna have ta beat you like a slow cavalry mule. Don't you know it's time once again for another full-length episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast...Put on your moccasins and your coonskin cap and join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch for Trailblazers Part 1 as they go tracking, hunting, and fighting alongside trailblazing legends Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, and Natty Bumppo...

00:20 -- Welcome and Announcements about Western Trailblazers

2:12 -- Paul has a review of Thunder in the East -- First in the First Frontier series by Mike Roark

5:30 -- Rich talks about Charlton Comics' Wild Frontier, a 7-issue anthology series that ran from 1955-1957 with art by Dick Giordano, and six Daniel Boone comics at ComicBookPlus.com.

8:22 -- And don't forget about DC Comics' Tomahawk which ran for 150 issues.

10:54 -- Look out! Here come the cattle!!! It's time for the trailblazers -- Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, Davy Crocket, and...

11:30 -- James Fenimore Cooper's fictional Natty Bumppo in the Leatherstocking Tales.

12:57 -- Last of the Mohicans adaptations into film in 1920, 1932, 1936 (with...Randolph Scott!), and 1947, then a television series in 1957 and another series from 1994, a 1971 5-hour BBC Masterpiece Theatre miniseries, and 1977 made-for-television movie, and finally the 1992 movie staring Daniel Day Lewis (and yes! this one occasion where the movie adaptation is better than the book). And a 2014 story tie-in The Pride of the Mohicans

18:58 -- Daniel Boone! (Not Davy Crockett) and Fess Parker played them both. (What was that all about?) The Daniel Boone mythology is an 18th century version of Taken. He blazed trails in Pennsylvania, Florida, Kentucky, and Missouri.

22:17 -- There are some new books about Daniel Boone. My Father Daniel Boone is a non-fiction take on DB, but the Daniel Boone mythology is a mix of fact and fiction.

24:04 -- Blood and Treasure set in the mid-18th century places Daniel Boone in the middle of the action.

25:20 -- Finding Daniel Boone by Ted Franklin Belue ponders the question...where are Daniel Boone's bones anyway?

25:41 -- A bit about Daniel Boone Westward Trail (1982), the 4th book in the The American Explorer Series, and other Daniel Boone recommended fiction.

27:24 -- Daniel Boone's story first appeared on the big screen in 1907, then in 1923, and 1926, with the first Daniel Boone talkie appearing in 1936, 1941, a DB serial in 1943, and 1956's Daniel Boone Trailblazer.

29:00 -- There were four Walt Disney forgettable Daniel Boone episodes, but 1964's NBC series with Fess Parker defined the Daniel Boone character in the American mindset.

32:57 -- There goes the chuckwagon triangle! And it's time for Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—AUSTIN WRIGHT & ROBERT DWYER

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time once again to hang out around the Six-Gun Justice water cooler for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Today, co-host Paul Bishop talks with Western writers Austin Wright and Robert Dwyer, whose debut Western novel, The Sheriff , was released in April.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—TONY HEALEY

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Howdy, wranglers. It's time to untangle them lariets and tie yourselves down for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment...Today we’re catching up with bestselling author, Tony Healey. Tony is the author of several novels under the Ralph Compton Western brand published by Berkley, as well as the Harper and Lane crime series published by Thomas & Mercer. He lives in Great Britain with his wife and four daughters, and—in a Six-Gun Justice Podcast exclusive—will be reading from his new Ralph Compton title, The Devil’s Snare...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—DEANNA DICKINSON

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment...Deanna Dickinson is a true daughter of the West. A recipient of the Will Rogers Medallion on multiple occasions, Deanna has also won the National Heritage and Cowboy Museum's coveted Wrangler Award. She writes award winning poetry and stories that take you into her world of ranch life, and lives on an active ranch in the American southwest...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 31—DUSTY TRAILS

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Now, hold on just a shiny spur jangling minute, cowboy, and settle back in your saddle 'cause its time for a new full-length episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast...Hitch your wagon to a star and join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they head 'em up and move 'em out on the dusty trail of wagon train and cattle drive sagas...

0:23 -- Welcome and Announcements
1:05 -- A few words about today's Dusty Trails episode
1:45 -- Electronic comics and the Hoopla app. Bouncer western comics with art by François Boucq and story by Alejandro Jodorowsky .
3:58 -- Acid Western comics and movies
5:46 -- Be warned, Bouncer is graphic, gory stuff, but the story is compelling. Complete with a character named AxHead
6:55 -- A fabulous new western by G. Wayne Tillman: Ghost Posse
8:47 -- And Now the Main Feature -- Dusty Trails!
9:20 -- The Big Trail with John Wayne
10:25 -- 1931s Fighting Caravans with Gary Cooper and later 1934's remake with Randolph Scott starring in Wagon Wheels
11:35 -- 1940's Kit Carson with John Hall
12:00 -- And here are a few movies about pioneering Mormons
13:00 -- Let's talk Santa Fe Trail, which begins in in Arrow Rock, Missouri through 900 miles of untamed wilderness
13:35 -- "Santa Fe Passage," a short story from Esquire, by Clay Fisher (a.k.a. Henry Wilson "Heck" Allen) and the movie from 1955 of the same name.
16:46 -- Another book called Santa Fe Passage, this one written by Jon R. Bauman from 2007
17:40 -- Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
18:50 -- The 24-book Wagons West series by Dana Fuller Ross (pseudonym of Noel Bertram Gerson)
19:42 -- Bend of the River (1952) with James Stewart directed by the under-rated Anthony Mann
21:04 -- Meek's Cutoff (2010) revealing the strength of the female pioneers...it's not lighthearted entertainment and features a frustratingly ambiguous ending.
23:00 -- Ralph Compton and the cattle drive (or sometime a horse drive) as a backdrop .
24:16 -- Red River (1948) with John Wayne and directed by Howard Hawkes -- it starts as a wagon train movie and ends up as a cattle drive movie
25:03 -- The must-see The Cowboys (1972) with John Wayne in this brilliant coming-of-age movies.
26:10 -- The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972) an unflinching portrayal of life on the trail. An overlooked gem.
27:22 -- City Slickers (1991) a trail ride comedy with Billy Crystal and Jack Palance...and Paul talks his own cattle drive.
28:20 -- The television miniseries Lonesome Dove one of the most beloved cattle drive stories of all time. And St. Elmo's Fire...? Yikes!
32:35 -- Chuck Wagon Bell!!! Followed by Shootouts and Shoutouts!!

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—LANE WARENSKI

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 03:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday once again and time to head to the corral for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Today, co-host Paul Bishop talks with Lane Warenski, the Amazon bestselling author of the twelve book Grizzly Killer series, which begins with Grizzly Killer—The Making of a Mountain Man. The recently released Grizzly Killer—Hell on the Horizon is the twelfth entry in the series and continues the thrilling mountain man saga in fine fettle...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—STEVE HOLLAND: THE FACE OF THE WEST

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 03:00:00 -0700

You know his face...You've seen it hundreds of times...Not on wanted posters, but on the covers of your favorite vintage Westerns (as well as the covers of paperbacks from many other genres). Revered cover artist James Bama called Steve Holland—The Face of the West—the greatest male model of all time, and nobody has ever argued with his assessment. In today's Speed Listen installment, Six-Gun Justice Podcast co-host Paul Bishop examines the life and work of Steve Holland and its influence on the Western genre—all in under fifteen minutes...give or take...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—NATALIE BRIGHT & DENISE F. McALLISTER

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Get ready, cowpunchers, it's Wild West Wednesday and time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment. Join SGJP co-host Richard Prosh in conversation with Natalie Bright and Denise F. McAllister, authors of the Wild Cow Ranch titles in the new contemporary Western Christian Romance series.

Lovers of the West can be born in the most unlikely of places. For Denise F. McAllister, her start was in Miami, Florida, surrounded by beaches and the Everglades. Denise credits her love of horseback riding and 15 years of showing in Atlanta, Georgia for her heartfelt connection to all things Western. Denise's faith is important to her and she loves to write about characters' journeys as they navigate real-world challenges. Denise is a member of Western Writers of America; Women Writing the West; Northeast Georgia Writers; Booth Western Art Museum's Writers' Guild

Natalie Bright writes stories that combine her passion for history of the American West and the unique people of the Texas Panhandle, where she calls home. She is a fifth generation Texan, and a fan of friendly people, a good story, Texas sunsets, and connecting with readers. She has published a series of cookbooks, young reader books, and a short story collection. Find Natalie on Instagram @natsgrams, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Facebook as NatalieBrightAuthor...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 30—REMEMBER THE ALAMO

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Settle down there, you bunch 'a rowdy polecats, it's time to get your Davy Crockett on for another full-length episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast. Git on up to them adobe ramparts and prepare to defend yourselves against Santa Ana's hordes... Join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they navigate the truth, fiction, tall stories, rumors, and false histories of the almost uncountable movies, books, TV shows, magazines, comics, toys, games, and collectables dedicated to Remembering the Alamo ...If you ain't got a coonskin hat, don't worry—neither did Davy.

00:00 -- Welcome and Announcements
2:25 -- If you enjoy the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, please consider donating at Patreon
3:35 -- We're remembering about the Alamo!
4:00 -- A quick history of the Alamo
5:50 -- What do people disagree about regarding the Alamo?
6:31 -- What do people agree on regarding the Alamo?
7:00 -- Paul talks about visiting the Alamo
8:20 -- We will be talking about the most readily available Alamo tie-ins
8:35 -- Marx Alamo Playsets
9:50 -- Alamo Coloring Books
10:16 -- Paperback Cover Catalog of Alamo Books
11:10 -- When the legend becomes fact, print the legend
11:50 -- Frazee's novelization of the John Wayne movie The Alamo
15:05 -- Thirteen Days to Glory by Lon Tinkle, The Alamo by John Meyers Meyers, The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
16:38 -- Time travel Alamo Remember the Alamo by Kevin Randall and Robert Cornett
17:25 -- Remember the Alamo by William Johnstone
18:50 -- Flashman at the Alamo by Robert Brightwell
20:10 -- Comics related to the Alamo
20:14 -- Two Gun Kid #75 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and Two Gun Kid #95
21:00 -- Davy Crockett in comic books
22:00 -- Alamo puzzles and games
22:15 -- The Alamo on the small screen
22:30 -- Two for Texas with Kris Kristofferson
23:25 -- Texas by James Michener
24:40 -- Thirteen Days to Glory
25:10 -- Lon Tinkle and John Wayne's The Alamo and Thirteen Days to Glory
27:33 -- John Wayne's The Alamo (and John Ford) with a star-studded cast
34:35 -- The outstanding Dimitri Tiomkin soundtrack for The Alamo
37:00 -- Battle scenes in Alamo movies, Alamo village,
38:27 -- The History Channel's series Texas Rising
39:35 -- Viva Max and The Man from the Alamo
42:50 -- A quick run-down of lesser known Alamo movies
44:44 -- Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—BERNARD SCHAFFER

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday and time to ride along with co-host Richard Prosh as he talks with acclaimed author Bernard Schafer. In 2021, Berkeley Books will debut Schaffer's brand new western trilogy as part of their Ralph Compton imprint. Look for Face of a Snake (published in February), followed by Snake's Fury, and Hell Snake, later in the year.

Schaffer is also the author of the popular Santero and the Rein thriller series—featuring detective Carrie Santero and her mentor, the troubled Jacob Rein. The three books in the series, The Thief of All Light, An Unsettled Grave, and Blood Angel, are available from Kensington Books.

Schaffer's award winning non-fiction book, Way of the Warrior: The Philosophy of Law Enforcement, is taught in universities and police academies around the world.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—KEVIN WOLF

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Hang on, buckaroos, in this special Speed Listen installment, Six-Gun Justice Podcast co-host Richard Prosch visits with author Kevin Wolf, who recently brought home the 2020 Spur Award for short fiction from the Western Writers of America. His prize-winning tale Belthanger, appeared in the recent anthology from Western Fictioneers, Under Western Stars.

Wolf's mystery writing has been favorably compared with James Lee Burke and Pat Conroy, while his westerns explore the lyrical ground of historic Colorado. The great-grandson of Colorado homesteaders, he enjoys fly fishing, old Winchesters and 1950's Western movies.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—ROBERT DEIS & BILL CUNNINGHAM

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 06:00:00 -0700

It's Wild West Wednesday one again, range riders, and time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment...Today, co-host Paul Bishop discusses the debut issue of the Men's Adventure Quarterly—featuring the unexpectedly brilliant Western stories and stunning art from the Men's Adventure Magazines of the '50s thru the '70s—with editor Robert Deis and art director Bill Cunningham...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 29—MORE WESTERN STARS

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Get ready to ride with those other Six-Gun stars of the silver screen as co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch discuss the Western movie careers of Charles Bronson, Robert Duval, Robert Mitchum, Sam Elliot, and more...It's a celebration of the guys who weren't John Wayne...

2:16 -- Episode #101 with 25K+ combined total downloads
2:30 -- Paul's on the used bookstore circuit again
3:44 -- Rich has a review of the Masked Rider Pulps
4:50 -- And specifically about the prolific pulp writer Cliff Walters whose works appeared in those magazines
7:36 -- Paul talks about News of the World (based on the book with the same name written by Paulette Jiles) on the starring Tom Hanks...who is always TOM HANKS. And he's glad he watched it.
11:29 -- Sneak Peak -- our next episode is about The Alamo before launching into today's topic of more Western Stars
11:45 -- Sam Elliot, the laconic cowboy with the grizzled mustache
16:30 -- Charles Bronson, more than just one of The Magnificent Seven
24:09 -- Robert Duvall, someone who's been in more Westerns than you think
28:58 -- A quick hat-tip to Tom Selleck
29:31 -- Robert Mitchem made 100+ movies and 1/3 were Westerns
33:00 -- Tom Mix, a pall bearer at Wyatt Earp's funeral, arguably the first great media franchise star of Westerns
37:20 -- Jimmy Stewart ... nice guy or deadly killer
40:12 -- ShootOuts and ShoutOuts

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—CHRIS MULLEN

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 03:00:00 -0800

It's Wild West Wednesday one again and time for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment...Today, co-host Richard Prosch chats with award-winning author Chris Mullins. Originally from Richmond, Texas, Mullins grew up listening to stories of the old west, imagining he was right there with gunslingers and comancheros fighting for survival in an unforgiving time. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1997, and began a career in teaching. Rowdy: Wild and Mean, Sharp and Keen is the first in his ongoing Rowdy western adventure series. Since its publication, his novel won the 2020 American Fiction Award, and was recently named as a 2020 Best Book Finalist in the American Book Fest-Western category...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—QUARTER HORSES: THE HISTORY OF COIN OPERATED HORSE RIDES

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In this Speed Listen installment, co-host Paul Bishop pays his dime for a ride on the mechanical horse outside his local market while sharing the history of Quarter Horses—coin operated horse rides...all in under fifteen minutes...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—JAMES REASONER

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In today's Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, co-host Paul Bishop hangs out around the Six-Gun Justice corral chatting with the million word a year man James Reasoner, who is know among the Indians as Man Who Kills Keyboards.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 28—MODERN WESTERNS

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 03:00:00 -0800

Put them longhorns back where you found 'em, you sagebrush sidewinders, it's time for another episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast... Join the posse and ride along as your co-hosts Paul and Rich cut the trail of the modern contemporary Western and wonder aloud if such a beast exists...Available now on all major podcast streaming platforms or by clicking on the player below...

01:06 — Rich reviews Harry Whittington’s HIGH FURY

03:50 — Paul looks at Robert Randisi’s FRONTIER MEDICINE

06:15 — Paul and Rich wonder, “What makes a Modern Western?”

07:45 — Frank Gruber’s Seven Categories of Western Plots

10:32 — Rich and Paul remember television’s McCLOUD

13:25 — Paul opines on Cormac McCarthy

14:25 — Paul and Rich roll into LONGMIRE country

19:05 — Rich talks C. J. Box and Joe Pickett

22:10 — Paul gets collared by a Wisconsin Fish and Game Officer

24:12 — Rich reviews SHOTS FIRED by Box

25:30 — Paul and Rich talk BIG SKY

27:42 — Paul contrasts YELLOWSTONE and THE SON

28:51 — Paul enjoyed HELL OR HIGH WATER and WIND RIVER. Here’s why…

35:10 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—VONN McKEE

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Rich talks with delightful Western wordslinger, Vonn McKee—who still vividly remembers her first glimpse of real cowboys herding mustangs into a pen outside Prescott, Arizona. Eventually moving with her family from Arizona back to her mother’s home state of Louisiana, Vonn jokes she is "descended from horse traders and southern belles."

Spending summers visiting her father's family, who raised cattle and broke horses in North Dakota—and, later, northwestern Minnesota—she was inspired by seeing her grandfather stretched out on a sofa reading Zane Grey novels. By age eighteen she had acquired her own complete set of ZG novels, which included some volumes passed down to her by her grandfather.

After years of working at everything from riverboat waitress to country singer to construction project manager, Vonn is incorporating her experiences—and some of the interesting characters she's met—into stories of the old West.

Her latest book is Comanche Winter and Other Stories of the West, available from Wolfpack Publishing.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—ARNOLD HANO

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In today's Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen, co-host Paul Bishop interviews wordslinging icon Arnold Hano, the 99 year old master of the Western noir... Hano is revered for his non-fiction baseball book The Day In The Bleachers, but his history in the publishing field is studded with highlights. As the first editor-in-chief of Lion Books, he guided the early careers of such acclaimed authors as Jim Thompson, Richard Matheson, and David Goodis. During his time with Bantam books, he was the editor for Western mega-star Luke Short. He also procured the book that would become Bantam's first multi-million copy seller. It's all here today in a interview filled with the lively reminiscences of a writer and editor who was there in the midst of publishing's halcyon days.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—B.N. RUNDELL

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In today's Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, co-host Rich Prosch catches up with bestselling western writer B.N. Rundell...Born into a ranching/rodeo family, Bob Rundell is the youngest of seven boys. After careers in business, insurance, and 30 years as a Baptist pastor, Bob retired to pursue his dream of writing. In his first year he wrote two #1 bestsellers—Star Dancer and To Keep a Promise. Since then he has created and written numerous books in his Rocky Mountain Saint and Buckskin Chronicles series—all reaching the top 10 in Amazon’s bestseller rankings—and currently is on book sixteen in his Stonecroft Saga series of frontier Westerns, all of which have been certified bestsellers.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 27—EARLY WESTERN WORDSLINGERS

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0800

Hang on to your hats, cowpokes, in this episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, Paul & Rich delve into the Westerns of a passel early 20th century wordslingers, including Will Cook, Max Brand, Luke Short, & Ernest Haycox...

01:23 — Meet Wade Everett…AKA: Will Cook

04:07 — Paul’s take on FORT STARKE and FIRST COMMAND

08:40 — Rich looks at Louis Trimble’s SIEGE AT HIGH MEADOW

09:58 — A look at NEMESIS OF CIRCLE A by Reese Sullivan ( Giles Lutz )

13:50 — Meet Max Brand

14:40 — Rich reviews Max Brand’s DEAD OR ALIVE

16:37 — Was Max Brand a character more interesting than his books?

19:01 — Frederick Glidden was Luke Short

21:00 — Rich snaps off THE WHIP ( Doom Cliff ) by Luke Short

22:00 — Paul takes up HARDCASE by Luke Short

23:10 — Rich hangs out with THE HANGMAN, based on a Luke Short story

25:40 — Paul spies out BLOOD ON THE MOON, a nourish Short adaptation

27:00 — On the trail with Ernest Haycox

28:00 — An overview of TRAIL TOWN and the movie adaptation ABILENE TOWN

31:00 — Rich and Paul wander through POWDER SMOKE AND OTHER STORIES by Ernest Haycox

32:05 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice
Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

BOOKS AND MOVIES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

WILL COOK—BOOKS
Fort Starke
First Command
Comanche Captives
The Peacemakers
The Outcasts

MOVIES MENTIONED BASED ON WILL COOK STORIES
Two Rode Together

LOUIS TRIMBLE—BOOKS
Siege At High Meadow

GILES LUTZ—BOOKS
The Honyocker
Nemesis of Circle A (as Reese Sullivan)

MAX BRAND—BOOKS
Destry Rides Again
Dead Or Alive
Silvertip
Dr. Kildare

MOVIES MENTIONED BASED ON MAX BRAND BOOKS
Destry Rides Again

BIOGRAPHY
Max Brand: The Big Westerner by Robert Easton

LUKE SHORT—BOOKS
The Whip (aka: Doom Cliff)
Hardcase
Gunman's Chance

MOVIES MENTIONED BASED ON LUKE SHORT STORIES
Ramrod
The Hangman
Blood On The Moon

ERNEST HAYCOX—BOOKS
Stage to Lordsburg
Trail Town
Powder Smoke and Other Stories

MOVIES MENTIONED BASED ON HAYCOX STORIES
Stagecoach (based on Stage to Lordsburg)
Union Pacific
Bugles in the Afternoon
The Far Country
Abilene Town (based on Trail Town)

COMIC BOOKS
Western Marshal (based on Trail Town)

REFERENCE WORKS
Shooting Scripts: From Pulp Western to Film, Bob Herzberg

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—CHRIS ENSS

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In today's episode, Rich and Chris talk IRON WOMEN: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad, the Unlikely Friendship of Isabella Bird and Rocky Mountain Jim, and the Western Writers of America's Packing the West program.

Chris Enss is a scriptwriter and comedienne who has written for television, film, and performed on cruise ships and on stage. She has worked with award-winning musicians, writers, directors, producers, and as a screenwriter for Tricor Entertainment, but her passion is for telling the stories of the men and women who shaped the history and mythology of the American West. Chris is the current president of the Western Writers of America.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—THE PROFESSIONALS

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 03:00:00 -0800

Join Six-Gun Justice Podcast co-host Paul Bishop for this Speed Listen installment discussing everything you need to know about the 1966 Western adventure movie The Professionals—starred Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode, and many other top stars—all in under fifteen minutes...give or take...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—WAYNE D. DUNDEE

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 23:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, podcast co-host Paul Bishop ties up at the hitchin' post for a chin wag with longtime friend and wordslinger Wayne D. Dundee, bestselling author of the Lone McGantry Westerns and many other rip snortin' tales...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 26—JOHN WAYNE VS AUDIE MURPHY

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In this full-length episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, saddle up with Paul and Rich as they head down the trail while talking about their favorite John Wayne and Audie Murphy Westerns from Red River to Seven Ways From Sundown. Along the way, they will also be reviewing both vintage westerns and some new publications every Western fan is going to want to get their lasso around...

01:04 — Paul’s exciting news on Arnold Hano

02:10 — Rich reviews Richard Brister’s The Wolf Streak (1958)

04:24 — Paul takes a look at the debut issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly

06:56 — Another look at author, Richard Brister: Fawcett Gold Medal’s Renegade Brand (1955)

09:23 — Paul reviews Audie Murphy: Movie Stories by David Williams

12:04 — Rich and Paul talk John Wayne and Audie Murphy

13:55 — Paul takes aim at No Name on the Bullet (1959) with Audie Murphy

18:41 — Rich drives the herd across Red River (1948) with John Wayne

23:15 — Paul rides again with Audie Murphy in Destry (1954)

26:53 — Rich lays siege to John Wayne’s classic, Rio Bravo (1959)

32:07 — Paul braves The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) with Audie Murphy

35:00 — Rich joins John Wayne for The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

38:25 — Paul looks at Audie Murphy in Seven Ways From Sundown (1960)

40:48 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—JOHN D. NESBITT

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 03:00:00 -0800

John D. Nesbitt lives in the plains country of Wyoming, where he teaches English and Spanish at Eastern Wyoming College. He has had short fiction collections, contemporary western novels, and dozens of traditional western novels published in various hardbound, large print, audio, and mass-market paperback editions.

Nesbitt has won many prizes and awards for his work from the Wyoming State Historical Society, Wyoming Writers, the Wyoming Arts Council, Western Fictioneers Peacemaker and Western Writers of America. He continues to write novels, short fiction, and poem.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—THE WOMAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment, Paul explores the significant and brilliant short stories of Montana's greatest Western writer, Dorothy M. Johnson, the woman behind The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, A Man Called Horse, The Hanging Tree, and more...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—HOCH HOCHHEIM

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Paul hangs out around the Six-Gun Justice corral chewing the jerky with wordslinger extraordinaire Hoch Hochheim, author of the bestselling Johan Gunther Western adventures, including his latest—American Medieval ...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 25—HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 03:00:00 -0800

It's the first anniversary of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast. Join Paul and Rich as they ride out to celebrate the accomplishments their first year of podcast wrangling and scout out what's ahead on the trail for their next podcasting cattle drive...

1:09 — On tap for this episode...unplugged and riffing as we go

1:43 — Thank yous to everyone who supported the 1st year of the podcast

2:15 — What got it all started?

3:00 — Nuts and bolts of getting the podcast named, designed, and launched

6:00 — Getting set up with equipment, hosting, and actually recording and editing the podcast

8:50 — Content delivered on a regular, reliable schedule

9:20 — Got a minute? Time for a Speed Listen

10:00 — Let's give 'em something to talk about -- Six Gun Justice Conversations

10:50 — 81 episodes and 30+ hours of content

11:25 — 20k downloads during 2020

11:40 — We always wanted to be big in England

13:50 — Favorite episodes from our first year

15:57 — Reading Westerns growing up?

17:46 — Making the switching from reading Westerns to writing Westerns

20:05 — Paul's connection to the 52 Weeks 52 Westerns books

22:22 — Rich's short stories and Hellbenders series out later in 2021

24:00 — Top 3 Book Picks from 2020

27:07 — Top 3 Movie Picks from 2020

29:20 — Top TV and Comic Picks from 2020

31:50 — The One Great Find of 2020

33:20 — All about the Six Gun Justice Book Club

34:00 — One of the Best of the West by True West Magazine

34:40 — Where is Six Gun Justice headed in 2021?

35:43 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—PHIL MILLS, JR.

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

Today, Rich chats with acclaimed writer and Vice-President of the Western Writers of American, Phil Mills, Jr. A 2010 WWA Spur Award Finalist winner for Best Western Audio Book for his novel, Where a Good Wind Blows, his two illustrated children's books, Scooter, the Cow Dog and Mud Between My Toes have also received critical acclaim. His experiences includes being a small town newspaper editor, farm magazine editor, and positions with two major advertising/public relations agencies. The second book in his Good Wind series, Where the Wildflowers Dance, was reviewed earlier on the Six Gun Justice Podcast and is available now from Five Star.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—NEVADA SMITH

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Podcast Speed Listen ® installment, co-host Paul Bishop digs into the history of the Steve McQueen revenge Western Nevada Smith and tells you everything you need to know in under 15 minutes...give or take...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—ERIC COMPTON

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Paul hangs around the corral with Paperback Warrior's co-host Eric Compton talking men's adventure and westerns...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 24—NOIR ON THE RANGE

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 03:00:00 -0800

In this full-length episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, Paul and Rich shake off the dust from the Holiday Trail and take a ride on the dark side down a trail we're calling Noir On The Range...where killers, gunslicks, and cowgirl femme fatales abound, and love is for suckers...

02:51 — Paul offers some context and background for Western Noir

04:09 — Rich talks Ed Gorman’s Guild series

06:19 — Paul reviews Clifton Adams’ noir western, THE DESPERADO

11:50 — Rich looks at H.A. DeRosso’s .44

14:01 — Paul’s take on Arnold Hano’s THE LAST NOTCH

16:27 — Rich and Paul run down some of the best Western noir movies

16:45 — Paul runs down the dark canyon PURSUED (1947)

18:52 — Rich throws a wide rope at RAMROD (1947) and hogties the Idiot Plot

23:25 — Paul puts a smoky dim spotlight on JOHNNY GUITAR (1954)

25:40 — Rich trespasses across THE FURIES (1950)

30:07 — Quick takes on a WINCHESTER ’73, RAWHIDE, BLOOD ON THE MOON, and TRACK OF THE CAT

33:30 — Court Barbara Stanwyck in 40 GUNS, experience TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN, enter the DEVIL’S DOORWAY, and visit STATIONS WEST

37:39 — Submitted for your consideration…Rod Serling’s Western Noir on television

40:22 — Paul explores Rod Serling’s memorable series, THE LONER

42:15 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—GARNER SIMMONS

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation, Rich talks with writer/producer Garner Simmons author of Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage - The Definitive Edition: 50 Years After "The Wild Bunch" from the Writer Who Knew Him Best, a biography of the late filmmaker Sam Peckinpah, which was released in 1982, with a new edition currently available. Peckinpah of course, is the director of such Six-Gun Justice favorites as Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch, Junior Bonner, and others.

A member of the Writers Guild of America, the Writers Guild of Canada, the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Simmons was born in Chicago, graduated from Colgate University and Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Communication, and worked in both Television and Motion Pictures as a writer, producer and director.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—TOP GUNS

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In this bonus Speed Listen installment, Paul shares some background and recommendations for a fistful of his favorite top gun Western wordslingers, including Frank Gruber, Frank O'Rourke, Brian Garfield, Lewis B. Patten, and more...Get ready to add a whole passel of titles to your want lists...
SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST
LIST OF AUTHORS/BOOKS
SPEED LISTEN #23
TOP GUNS

FRANK GRUBER
Peace Marshal
Fighting Man
Fort Starvation
The Pulp Jungle

FRANK O’ROURKE
A Mule For the Marquesa/The Professionals
The Bravados
Warbonnet Law
The Shotgun Man

LEWIS B. PATTEN
The Red Sabbath
A Killing in Kiowa
Lynching at Broken Butte

BRIAN GARFIELD
Mr. Sixgun
Justice At Spanish Flats
The Lusty Breed
Dragoon Pass
The Last Hard Men
Sliphammer
Wild Times
Western Films: A Complete Guide

PHILIP KETCHUM
Bretwalda
Gun Code
The Hard Man
The Man Who Tamed Dodge City
The Man Who Turned Outlaw
The Man Who Sold Leadville
Cabot
Support Your Local Sheriff

CLIFTON ADAMS
Amos Flagg-Lawman
Tragg’s Choice
The Last Days of Wolf Garnett,
The Hottest Fourth of July In the History of Hangtree County

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—BIG JIM WILLIAMS

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Paul chews the jerky with Peacemaker award winning Western wordslinger Big Jim Williams, author of the Jake Silverhorn Texas Ranger series...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 23—HOLIDAY SPECIAL

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In this episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, Paul and Rich celebrate the holiday season with a look at Christmas themed Western novels, Western movies, and TV Westerns...Happy Holidays to all, and to all a good Western...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—BEAU L'AMOUR

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0800

In today's Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Rich chats with Beau L’Amour, son of the best selling western legend Louis L'Amour. Beau has managed his father's literary estate since 1988, and strives to maintain that legacy. In the process, he's done editorial work, revised unfinished manuscripts, managed a literary magazine, produced an audio/radio drama series, been a comic book writer, a movie producer, and an expert in marketing...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED-LISTEN—TV WESTERN THEMES

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 03:00:00 -0800

Recently, Rich and Paul co-hosted a full-length episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast featuring the classic Warner Bros.’ TV Westerns. During that show, they played short clips of several theme songs connected to those shows. In this Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen, Paul takes a closer look at those TV Western themes and also takes a listen to the full versions used on the shows. This is done for purely entertainment purposes with the clips coming from open Internet sites.

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SIX-GUN CONVERSATIONS—NANCY PEARL

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Paul chats with best-selling author, Nancy Pearl. Nationally honored librarian and literary critic, Nancy regularly discusses books on NPR’s Morning Edition and hosts the Seattle cable television show Book Lust With Nancy Pearl, featuring interviews with authors, poets, and other literary figures.

For the twelve book series Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries published by Amazon Encore, she edited a new edition of Clair Huffaker’s The Cowboy and the Cossack—which happens to be Paul's favorite Western—providing an insightful introduction to the volume.

But best of all, Nancy is the only librarian to have not one, but two action figures modeled after her as the quintessential bespectacled librarian complete with push-button amazing shushing action—which is about as cool as it gets...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 22—RIDIN' THE TRAIL

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 03:00:00 -0800

For this full-length episode, Paul and Rich hit the dusty trail with crews from two of the most fondly remembered Western TV shows—Rawhide and Wagon Train. It's time to head 'em up and move 'em out and get the herd moving and the wagons rolling into the badlands of rustlers, Indians, and all manner of unscrupulous varmints...

01:35 — Listener recommendations for fascinating cavalry adventure reads.

02:40 — Rich rediscovers Frank Bonham and reviews ONE RIDE TOO MANY and LOGAN’S CHOICE.

06:36 — Paul takes a look at A HACK’s NOTEBOOK by Ben Haas and Mens’ Adventure Christmas lists

10:24 — Paul and Rich look at the origins of TV’s Rawhide

14:20 — Rawhide’s gritty, adult realism was tempered with familiar guest stars

15:35 — What about Rawhide stars Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood?

18:20 — Rich and Paul hitch a ride on TV’s Wagon Train

20:50 — Who were Ward Bond and Robert Horton?

23:10 — The loss of the show’s two top stars

28:10 — Up against The Virginian

31:20 — Paul & Rich reveal some Rawhide and Wagon Train tie-in merchandise

33:14 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—W. MICHAEL FARMER

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0800

Rich's guest for today's Six-Gun Justice Conversation is W. Michael Farmer. A retired Ph.D. physicist with numerous credentials to his name, Michael has also written short stories, award winning essays and novels. His first novel, Hombrecito's War, won a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award for Best First Novel in 2006, and was a New Mexico Book Award Finalist for Historical Fiction in 2007. His novels have continued to garner praise and awards, and he is currently busy with a body of work that includes two non-fiction Western histories and two novels about the captivity and wars of Geronimo... In October of this year, three of his books—Geronimo Prisoner of Lies, The Last Warrior, and Blood Soaked Earth—were named as finalists for the 2020 Mexico-Arizona book awards...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—TOP TEN WESTERN SHORT STORIES

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:00:00 -0800

In this episode of our Speed Listen series, Rich digs into his favorite literary format to craft a list of ten current favorite Western yarns spanning the last century...and then some!

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—IVOR DAVIS

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Paul talks with international crime and entertainment journalist, and bestselling author, Ivor Davis who has written widely on movies for the London Daily Express, the Times of London, the New York Times syndicate, and Los Angeles magazine. Friends with John Wayne, Ivor was on the set of several Wayne westerns. He interviewed Paul Newman and Robert Redford during the filming of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, hung out with Jack Elam, watched Israeli movie extras undergo a strange ritual on the set of a western starring Richard Boone, and has many more fun tales from cowboy action films around the world...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 21—CHARGE! U.S. CAVALRY WESTERNS

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In this episode of the Six Gun Justice Podcast, Paul and Rich find themselves assigned to Fort Podcast where they repel Indian attacks while discussing the numerous books, movies, and short stories featuring the U.S. Cavalry in all its glory and—in some cases—infamy. It’s the cavalry to the rescue in Charge!

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MICHAEL RITT

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 01:00:00 -0800

Today, Rich talks with western writer, Michael Ritt. Michael currently lives in the mountains of western Montana with his wife Tami, and their Australian Shepherd, Lucky. He enjoys reading about history, theology and natural science. Mike is a member of Western Fictioneers and Western Writers of America. Mike has several stories and poems appearing in different print anthologies and magazines, and his first novel, The Sons of Philo Gaines, is out now from Five Star.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED-LISTEN—MARX' BEST OF THE WEST / JOHNNY WEST ACTION FIGURES

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In this Speed Listen installment of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, Paul dives into the history of Marx' Best of the West / Johnny West action figures, all in under fifteen minutes—give or take...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—DAVID GREGORY

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversations segment, Paul talks with actor/writer/producer David Gregory about his award winning Powder Burns podcast, which features the trials and tribulations of a blind Sheriff in the Wild West. With guest stars such as Robert Vaughn and Ed Asner, Powder Burns has been nominated for a six-shooter's worth of awards and has been deemed, "Darned good entertainment and the future of the Western," by none other than the Western Writers of America...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 20—SIX-GUNS ON THE RADIO

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In this episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch ride hell for leather back to the days when shootouts ruled the radio waves and your imagination added to the entertainment value...

01:44 — Paul reviews Steve Frazee’s The Alamo movie tie-in novel

04:45 — Rich talks nonfiction that reads like fiction: Blue Coat and Pioneer: The Recollections of John Benton Hart, 1864 - 1868.

07:07 — Paul and Rich tune into the origins of Old Time Radio westerns

07:50 — Paul rides the airwaves with The Lone Ranger

08:50 — Rich shoots straight on Tom Mix Ralston Straight-shooters

10:24 — Your hosts strum along with Gene Autry and Roy Rogers

14:59 — The Cisco Kid robs from the rich and gives to the poor

17:30 — Gunsmoke finds an adult audience for radio westerns

19:15 — Rich bows to The Frontier Gentleman

21:35 — Paul prescribes Doctor Six-Gun for your Western radio ills

23:50 — James Stewart is Britt Ponsett—The Six-Shooter

28:25 —Paul finds a forgotten treasure with Luke Slaughter of Tombstone

31:38 — The cry goes up — Frontier Town!!

33:34 — The straight dope on Straight Arrow

36:58 — Rich and Paul rein in on radio’s Have Gun, Will Travel

39:41 — Paul signs up with Tales of the Texas Rangers

41:34 — Rich Escapes to the old west

43:05 — Paul attends the Lux Radio Theater

44:12 — Radio drama after the Golden Age

45:34 — Rich uncovers The CBS Radio Mystery and Adventure Theaters

46:00 — Paul shares the contemporary audio drama, Powder Burns

47:50 — Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs

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Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, publisher Michael Anderle, Author L. J. Martin, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—VICKY ROSE

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0800

Vicky J Rose, who also writes under VJ Rose and the pseudonym Easy Jackson was born and raised in what was once the wildest of old west towns in Texas.

She earned a degree in journalism from a small West Texas university and has been published in numerous nonfiction anthologies, written articles for magazines and newspapers, authored several books and a screenplay that won semi-finalist in a national contest.

A 2014 Spur finalist for short fiction, she's active in the Western Writers of America, the Western Fictioneers, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the Texas Folklore Society.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED-LISTEN—LEGEND OF THE BLACK ROSE

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In this Speed Listen installment, Paul and Rich hang out and discuss the origin of their new western series, Legend of the Black Rose...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—DALE MIDKIFF

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 08:00:00 -0700

In today’s Six-gun Justice Conversations segment, Rich visits with actor/producer Dale Midkiff who played Buck Wilmington for two seasons in the CBS series reimagining of the 1960 classic, The Magnificent Seven, with Michael Bien, Eric Close and Ron Perlman. Midkiff’s breakthrough role came when he landed the role of Elvis in the made-for-TV movie Elvis and Me (1988). He later starred in Pet Sematary with Fred Gwynne (1989), and Love Potion No. 9 with Sandra Bullock (1992). He has portrayed Clark Davis in 'Love Comes Softly', winning a Camie award and the Grace award for his performance. He is the only actor of the cast to star in all six installments of Janette Oke's "Love" series books turned movies.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 19—WARNER BROS. CLASSIC TV WESTERNS

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:00:00 -0700

In episode nineteen of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, Rich and Paul ride hell-for-leather with the characters from the Warner Bros. Classic TV Westerns—Cheyenne, Bronco, Sugarfoot, Maverick, Lawman, Colt .45, and more...

01:44 — Paul reviews a classic Western paperback: Gunsight by Frank Gruber

04:39 — Jack Warner comes to TV

05:58 — Clint Walker leads Cheyenne to success

08:40 — Cheyenne evolves with the times

12:50 — The story of Bronco Lane with Ty Hardin

15:55 — Paul and Rich look at Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins

20:28 — The Monday Night Lineup wraps

21:21 — Duel at Judas Basin - a WB crossover

22:20 — A shoutout to Maverick

23:02 — Rich and Paul talk Lawman starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop

26:00 — Colt .45 makes the scene

27:49 — The dawn of Warner Bros. Merchandising

28:30 — Temple Houston starring Jeffrey Hunter

33:48 — The Dakotas fills in for Cheyenne

34:50 — Rich reviews E. M. Parsons’ Texas Heller

36:20 — E. M. Parsons and The Dakotas

38:11 — The Alaskans mixes it up

39:53 — Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs

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Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, publisher Michael Anderle, Author L. J. Martin, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—JEROD BLAYNEY

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Paul chats with Jerod Blayney, a dedicated collector of the Hartland TV Western horse and rider sets and gunfighter figurines, as well as being the administrator for the Hartland TV Western Figurines Facebook group...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED-LISTEN—HARTLAND TV WESTERN COLLECTIBLES

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Speed Listen Installment of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, Paul discusses the history of the beautifully sculpted and hand-painted Hartland TV Western figurines highly sought after by collectors today...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATION—DARYL McCULLOUGH

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 02:00:00 -0700

With Rich for this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment is writer, audio dramatist, and independent film maker, Daryl McCullough. Daryl is regarded as one of the foremost experts on Zorro. For over a decade he has been the driving force behind Zorro’s return to the world of full-cast audio drama and audio books. He has written several original Zorro adventures, worked with multiple audio publishers, radio theater groups and some of Hollywood's finest talent.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 18—ZORRO

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In Episode 18 of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, join Paul and Rich as they mount up on their horses Whirlwind and Hurricane and ride out with Zorro to battle injustice wherever it be found...

01:50 — Paul snags an instant collection of Official TV Western Book

02:51 — Rich takes a look at Western Magazine, 3-Book Western, and Posse Western digest

06:00 — Paul and Rich look at the origins of that swashbuckling fox, Zorro

09:13 — After “The Curse of Capistrano,” Johnston McCully’s Zorro becomes an ongoing character

10:40 — Douglas Fairbanks takes over with The Mark of Zorro (1920)

13:40 — Tyrone Power leaps in with his own rendering of Zorro (1940)

14:59 — Walt Disney takes an interest in our hero

16:45 — Zorro sweeps across the small screen with Guy Williams

18:45 — Walt Disney’s Zorro takes to the air with an iconic cast

21:25 — And don’t forget the trusty Tornado — as portrayed by Diamond Decorator

22:08 — The Making of Old California…for a price!

26:13 — Paul and Rich review The Whitman TV tie-in for Walt Disney’s Zorro

29:12 — A Live Action Zorro appears at Disneyland

30:00 — The second season brings inevitable change

32:53 — What about Zorro and Son (1983) and The New Zorro (1990)?

36:20 — Antonio Banderas: A Zorro for the 90s big screen

37:15 — The curse of Zorro’s animated adventures

43:25 — Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs

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Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, publisher Michael Anderle, Author L. J. Martin, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MICHAEL ZIMMER

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Michael Zimmer is the author of eighteen novels. His work has been praised by Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Historical Novel Society, and others.

The Poacher's Daughter (Five Star, 2014) received a starred Booklist review, and was selected winner of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum's prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel (2015).

Zimmer resides in Utah with his wife Vanessa and their two dogs.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED-LISTEN—ROY ROGERS, KING OF THE COWBOYS

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Rich tracks down Roy Rogers, the greatest Western——entertainer——of all time. Musical recordings, Movies, radio, TV, books, and a franchise chain of restaurants carried his name around the world to such an extent that he was eventually known as King of the Cowboys.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—ROB WORD

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation, Paul is on the trail of Rob Word, a man who has work tirelessly to both honor and preserve the heritage of classic western movies and TV shows, but to also promote the western genre as an ongoing, vibrant, and relevant part of our American culture.

Since 2014, he has written, produced, directed, and hosted his weekly YouTube western celebrity interview series, A Word on Westerns, filmed at The Autry Museum in Los Angeles. He has written and produced live events, such as Memories of Lonesome Dove featuring Robert Duvall, and a Memorial Tribute to Clayton Moore, as well as writing and producing numerous other top rated western movies, television series, and documentaries for CBS, A&E, PBS and other network and cable channels.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 17—MAVERICK

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 03:00:00 -0700

It's time to push through the batwing doors and start living on Jacks and Queens for Episode 17 of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast. Have a seat at the poker table with Paul and Rich as they deal in one of the most fondly remembered Western TV icons—The cardsharp and reluctant hero known as Maverick...

01:20 — Rich reviews PULP, a new graphic novel by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

03:16 — Props to our behind-the-scenes friends, Ed Robertson, Lee Goldberg, and Max Allan Collins

04:18 — Roy Huggins and the Origin of Maverick

08:54 — Not a Comedy Western, but a Western with Humor

10:00 — Huggins’ Ten Point Guide to Maverick’s Success

12:00 — Enter Jack Kelly as Bart

14:20 — Rich and Paul share Maverick’s “Pappyisms.”

15:40 — Exit Garner, Enter Moore…

16:45 — …and Robert Colbert

17:05 — Paul and Rich share their favorite episodes

21:40 — The New Maverick and Young Maverick fold

23:16 — 1981’s Brett Maverick plays his hand

25:33 — The Not-So Magnificent Six

26:40 — What Might Have Been—with Jack Kelly

28:30 — Richard Donner’s Big Screen Maverick

31:00 — Paul Newman as Maverick?

33:49 — Max Allan Collins on the movie tie-in novel

35:52 — Rich looks at the Whitman juvenile tie-in novel

38:29 — Paul reviews the Little Golden Book

39:48 — Our heroes explore the Maverick comics and licensed oddities

43:25 — Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs

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Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—STUART ROSEBROOK

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Stuart Rosebrook, Ph.D is a true son of the American West. Currently the editor of True West magazine, he grew up in North Hollywood, California, but spent the summers of his youth at the Orme’s Quarter Circle V-Bar Ranch Camp in northern Arizona.

He has been a featured writer for Arizona Highways, Ranch and Reata, American Cowboy and Camera & Darkroom. He was also a commentator for the John Wayne 100th Birthday DVD Edition of True Grit.

Most recently he assisted his late father Jeb Rosebrook publish his memoir, Junior Bonner: The Making of a Classic with Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen in the Summer of 1971.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED-LISTEN—LANCER

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Speed Listen installment of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, Paul tells you everything you need to know about the Western TV series Lancer, the Lancer tie-in novel, and the ongoing scandal in the world of Lancer fan fiction—all in under fifteen minutes...give or take.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MIKE HAUSS

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Paul talks with Spaghetti Western maven Mike Hauss, the man behind the just released Spaghetti Westerns Volume 1 and Spaghetti Westerns Volume 2, and the all new quarterly Spaghetti Western Digest. It's time to squint your eyes........move your little black cheroot from one side of your mouth to the other...........listen to the ticking of your pocket watch........and........go for your guns!

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 16—SPAGHETTI WESTERNS

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In episode 16, Six-Gun Justice Podcast co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch go to Italy, Spain, and France to get a primer on Spaghetti Westerns, Paella Westerns, Baguette Westerns, and all the flavorful Euro-westerns inbetween...

01:57 — Fan feedback on How the West Was Fun

04:16 — Peter Ackerman’s Cat Ballou TV Pilot story

07:40 — Paul and Rich rundown the origins of the Spaghetti Western

12:50 — The Dollars Trilogy

17:24 — Clint Eastwood and American Stars anchor the films

18:02 — Lee Van Cleef embraces the genre

21:17 — Where were the Spaghetti Westerns filmed?

21:54 — Rich and Paul talk Sergio Corbucci, Franko Nero, and others

23:00 — Zapata Westerns: poverty and revolution rule the day

24:48 — Once Upon a Time in the West

26:33 — Leone’s unique collaboration with Ennio Morricone

29:20 — Comedy rides in to save the day with the Trinity films

33:37 — Baguette Westerns

35:00 — The Spaghetti Western Hall of Shame

36:04 — Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—JOHNNY D. BOGGS

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Rich visits with Western writers Johnny D. Boggs. Johnny has won eight Spur Awards from Western Writers of America, a Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and has been called by Booklist magazine "among the best western writers at work today."

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED-LISTEN—OWEN WISTER AND HOW THE WEST WAS WRITTEN

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Owen Wister (1860 - 1938) is often considered the father of western fiction because of his early novels, Lin McLean (1897) and The Virginian (1902). In this episode, Rich reviews Wister's writing life with special attention to How the West was Written, Ron Scheer's three-volume collection of book reviews and blog posts.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—C.K. CRIGGER

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-gun Justice Conversation, Paul chats with Spur award winning wordslinger Carol Crigger about life growing up on an Indian reservation, her China Bohannon novels, and her new novel, Hereafter...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 15—HOW THE WEST WAS FUN

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0700

Paul and Rich ride out to rope some funny with their take on comedy westerns from laugh out loud funny to complete failures without a single laugh.

02:09 — Paul and Rich introduce The Legend of the Black Rose from Wolfpack Publishing

03:01 — Rich shares his good fortune at receiving a treasure trove of Western books and ephemera

08:06 — Paul and Rich discuss Robert E. Howard’s Breckinridge Elkins stories

10:08 — A look at W.C. Tuttle’s Sheriff Henry and Jack Bickham’s Wildcat O’Shea

13:22 — Sharing the H.H. Lomax books by Preston Lewis

14:00 — Rich talks Buster Keaton’s The Paleface (1922)

15:00 — Paul and Buster Keaton Go West (1925)

16:16 — The story behind The General (1926)

17:35 — Laurel and Hardy follow the stars Way Out West (1937)

19:14 — The Paleface (1948) and The Son of Paleface (1952) with Bob Hope and Jane Russell

20:00 — The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)

20:50 — Paul’s review of Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)

22:27 — Rich and Paul take a look at Cat Ballou (1965) and its TV pilots

25:04 — Rich rides to Fort Courage to visit F-Troop (1965 - 1967)

28:40 — Paul spends a real-life week in the saddle, so can relate to City Slickers (1991)

31:05 — What do we think about Shang-hai Noon (2000)?

32:42 — Paul is pleasantly surprised by Rango (2011)

34:10 — Disney’s era of family-oriented comic western adventures.

36:22 — But what about Blazing Saddles (1974)?

39:27 — Paul declares A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) dead on arrival.

40:40 — Shoot-Outs and Shout-Outs

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—C. COURTNEY JOYNER

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Rich visits with C. Courtney Joyner -- a screenwriter and director with over 25 produced movies to his credit. A graduate of USC his latest screenwriting work is COP WAR with Sheldon Lettich and a biography of the outlaw Belle Starr.

Joyner's novel-length western fiction includes creating the SHOTGUN series for Pinnacle books: SHOTGUN, SHOTGUN: THE BLEEDING GROUND, BUSHWHACKED: THE BLOODY SAGA OF JOHN "SHOTGUN" BISHOP, SHOTGUN: THESE VIOLENT TIMES, and the upcoming SHOTGUN: BULLET KISSED.

Joyner's short fictions can be found in the anthologies LAW OF THE GUN, BEAT TO A PULP, FISTFUL OF LEGENDS, THE TRADITIONAL WEST, SIX GUNS AND SLAY BELLS, HELL COMES TO HOLLYWOOD, and others. His story "Two Bit Kill" from LAW OF THE GUN was nominated for a Peacemaker Award by the Western Fictioneers as Best Short Story of 2010, while "Christmas for Evangeline" from SIX GUNS AND SLAY BELLS was nominated for the same award in 2013. In 2014, SHOTGUN was nominated for a Peacemaker as Best First Novel.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—ALEX HAWK WESTERNS

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Speed Listen installment of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, Paul takes you down a rabbit hole to discover the identities of the western wordslingers behind the mask of the Alex Hawk pseudonym used on a series of paperback original western adventures between 1968 and 1971...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—TERRENCE MCCAULEY

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0700

In this Six-gun Justice Conversation, Paul chats with his friend, Western wordslinger Terrence McCauley, author of the Aaron Mackey westerns and several new titles under the renewed Ralph Compton banner...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 14—SIDEKICKS

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, Paul and Rich posse up to track down the best of the rooting, tooting, fumbling, bumbling, high voiced, lazy-eyed, horse faced, Western sidekicks to ever ride the range in movies and on TV...

03:09 — Rich reviews Rick O’ Shay, Hipshot, and Me by Stan Lynde

6:30 — Christmas comes in July for Paul with podcast stats and the story of Jim Baird’s Western TV and Movie Tie-In collection.

10:04 — A history of the trusty sidekick.

15:40 — Tonto: the Wild One who friended the Lone Ranger

19:19 — Gene Autry’s pal, Frog, aka: Smiley Burnett

23:38 — Pat Brady takes the stage—and don’t forget Nelly Belle

25:30 —Chill Wills had a hot showbiz career, in more ways than one

28:35 — Andy Devine and Jack Elam: turning physical handicaps into valuable characteristics

32:00 — Slim Pickens: The Gabby Hayes of the ‘60s and ‘70s

34:06 — Pat Buttram steps in

36:19 — Ken Curtis: From Colorado to Hollywood’s Dodge City

38:20 — Leo Carillo’s California roots stretch far beyond the Cisco Kid

41:19 — Possibly the Most Famous Western sidekick of all time: Gabby Hayes

43:43 — Paul and Rich pay tribute to the four-legged co-stars

50:36 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

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Pat Brady sings “Hot Lead” in Bells of San Angelo — https://youtu.be/Asw2nsIwnkQ

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—CHRIS ENSS

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0700

Chris Enss is a scriptwriter and comedienne who has written for television, film, and performed on cruise ships and on stage. She has worked with award-winning musicians, writers, directors, producers, and as a screenwriter for Tricor Entertainment, but her passion is for telling the stories of the men and women who shaped the history and mythology of the American West. Chris is the current president of the Western Writers of America.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—THE LAZARUS MAN

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0700

Rich takes a look at the 1996 TNT Western series starring Robert Urich as an amnesiac who may have played a mysterious part in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—STEVE MERTZ

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation, Paul gets to chew the jerky with his long time trail par'd Steve Mertz, the author of numerous novels including his latest, North Of Tombstone...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 13—WYATT EARP

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In Episode Thirteen of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, join Paul and Rich as they do the 'hero strut' on the way to a deadly confrontation with Wyatt Earp and the legends, myths, and facts surrounding the gunfight at the O.K. Corral...And they are bringing Hell with them, you hear me!

02:34 — Rich reviews Killer’s Corral (1968) and Steel Jacket (1972) by Merle Constiner

05:56 — Paul talks Stan Lynde and Latigo by Dean Owen

06:50 — Paul and Rich hero strut straight into Tombstone

08:04 — The history of the legend of Wyatt Earp and Stuart Lake’s novel: Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal

15:06 — Rich talks Frontier Marshal (1939) starring Randolph Scott and Cesar Romero as Doc “Halliday”

16:40 — Paul reviews Tombstone: The Town to Tough to Die (1942)…or is that “too tough to watch?”

17:50 — Rich finds My Darling Clementine (1946) problematic

21:12 — Paul looks at Burt Lancaster and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

22:51 — Nerd moment: Star Trek’s Spectre of the Gun (1968)

23:28 — Rich revisits Sturges with the director’s revisit, Hour of the Gun (1967) and mentions Blake Edward’s Sunset (1988)

26:50 — Paul rediscovers Doc, the unsung 1971 movie with Stacy Keach and Faye Dunaway.

28:05 — Tombstone (1993) makes the scene, but…

31:03 — Wyatt Earp (1994) suffers from a close comparison

32:00 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

What’s the Score? Hour of the Gun’s soundtrack reviewed: https://westernfictioneers.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-western-scores-hour-of-gun.html

Thanks to sponsors, Wolfpack Publishing, Author Chris Enss, and the Western Writers of America.

Thanks also to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about the Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

As ever, thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—PRESTON LEWIS

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment, Paul talks with Preston Lewis, Spur winning author of the H.H. Lomax series and many other westerns...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—THE ENIGMA OF JOHN WHITLATCH

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:00:00 -0700

It's a rootin' tootin' Monday morning and time for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen. As the pandemic is still on the warpath and we are continuing to shelter in the bunkhouse, grab some jerky and a can of Diet Sasparilla © from the chuckwagon vending machine, and settle in for a short Six-Gun Justice version of home schooling. In this installment, co-host Paul Bishop rides one of his favorite hobby horses as he shares everything you need to know (and indeed everything he knows) about the mystery of Western wordslinger John Whitlatch in under fifteen minutes...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—CHERYL PIERSON

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Cheryl was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, and grew up in Seminole, Oklahoma. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and holds a B.A. in English. She has taught numerous writing classes and workshops over the past years and also works on an individual basis with many of her students, and other authors, locally and nationwide.

She has also sold numerous short stories, as a contributor for the Adams Media and Victory Tales Press anthologies. Her short stories also appear in several the Adams Media Christmas anthologies, as well as various other publications, including "Chicken Soup for the Empty Nester's Soul" and "Chicken Soup Messages From Heaven."

Cheryl and her long time friend and fellow author Livia J. Washburn founded their own publishing house, PRAIRIE ROSE PUBLICATIONS, in August of 2013.

Cheryl lives with her husband in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 12—NORTHWESTERNS

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In Episode Twelve of the SIx-Gun Justice Podcast, Paul and Rich head north to Alaska and Canada for an in-depth look at the Northwestern—an offshoot of the western genre where Mounties get all the action usually reserved for sheriffs, marshals, and other American tin stars...Join Rich & Paul as they don snowshoes and Red Serge to saddle up with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to ride into the vast Northwest.

01:38 — Rich introduces listeners to Andy Thomas, Western artist

03:05 — Paul shares his recent review of James Warner Bellah

04:20 — Paul and Rich define the Northwestern genre and its tropes

08:04 — The Northwestern pulps

11:24 — Paul recommends Scarlet Riders: Pulp Fiction Tales of the Mounties, edited by Don Hutchison

11:55 — Rich and Paul saddle up with King of the Royal Mounted and other Northwestern comics

14:04 — Sgt. Preston of the Yukon in TV, radio, and comic books

17:35 — Paul presents the British born Thriller Picture Library featuring Dick Daring

21:43 — King of the Royal Mounted in the movies

22:20 — Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

22:48 — Paul and Rich discover The Scarlet Riders

30:10 — Paul looks at The Brothers in Blood

31:35 — And who can forget Dudley Do-Right

32:33 — A fast look at Scott Young’s Matthew "Matteesie" Kitologitak series

34:44 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Thanks to Mike Bray and Wolfpack Publishing, our primary sponsors

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Be sure to visit Andy Thomas, Artist at: www.AndyThomas.com and our Q&A with Andy at: https://tinyurl.com/artistandythomas

Adventure Magazine—Toughest Looking Mountie Ever: https://tinyurl.com/toughestmountie

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And thanks to all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—JUSTIN MARRIOTT

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation Paul talks with his friend Justin Marriott, the wrangler behind the Hot Lead The Fanzine of Vintage Paperbacks...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—JONAH HEX

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0700

Rich reviews the four-color panels of the 1960s and ‘70s that led up to the most popular Western comic book character of all time, DC’s elusive, scarred bounty hunter, Jonah Hex.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MATTHEW P. MAYO

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0700

MATTHEW P. MAYO is the award-winning author of thirty-plus books and dozens more short stories. His novel, STRANDED: A STORY OF FRONTIER SURVIVAL, won the prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, as well as the Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction by the Western Writers of America. His novel, TUCKER'S RECKONING, won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, and his short stories have been Spur Award and Peacemaker Award finalists.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 11—WESTERN TV TIE-IN NOVELS

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 05:00:00 -0700

Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch take a deep dive into the world of Western TV Tie-In Novels.

02:41 — Paul shares his background experience with TV Tie-In novels in the ‘60s

04:16 — What is a TV Tie-In novel?

11:45 — Rich and Paul look at the earliest Western TV Tie-In novels including Wagon Train, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Restless Gun, and The Deputy

16:05 —The Rebel’s unique multi-decade saga of tie-in novels and a connection to Hondo

21:01 — Paul shares some info re: Rawhide and Wanted, Dead or Alive

22:04 — Rich offers up Have Gun Will Travel

22:44 — Paul on Lancer

27:18 — Rich and Paul talk The Iron Horse, William Johnston, The Outcast and Cimmaron Strip

31:15 — The mysterious background of Bearcats

33:30 —The tie-in saga of Wild Wild West

36:30 —Rich on The Quest

39:00 — The Virginian and How the West Was Won

40:30 — Gunsmoke lives on

43:28 — Bonanza gets its due

47:29 — The Whitman juveniles, Big Little Books, and Little Golden board books

48:19 — Shoot-outs and Shout-out

Thanks to Mike Bray and Wolfpack Publishing, our primary sponsors

Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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Thanks to our sponsor, Wolfpack Publishing, and all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—STEVE MYALL

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this episode of Six-Gun Justice Conversations, Paul talks with western fiction uber fan Steve Myall, proprietor of the Western Fiction Review website...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—RALPH COMPTON

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment, Paul shares everything you need to know about Ralph Compton, his westerns, and the Ralph Compton Brand in under fifteen minutes...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—PATRICK DEAREN

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, Patrick Dearen is the author of twenty-four books. Dearen was born in 1951 and grew up in the small West Texas town of Sterling City. He earned a bachelor of journalism from The University of Texas at Austin in 1974 and received nine national and state awards as a reporter for two West Texas daily newspapers. His newest novels are "Apache Lament," "Dead Man's Boot;" "When Cowboys Die;" and "The Big Drift."

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 10—THE WESTERNS OF ELMORE LEONARD

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch are coming. They carry a handful of Western novels for close range review, a film pass to some of the best adaptations of all time for wide coverage, and they carry enough anecdotes about Elmore Leonard to inform on army—because sometimes they have to.

02:00 — Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules for Writing

04:02 — Rich and Paul share highlights from Leonard’s early writing career.

09:43— Short stories adapted to film and TV: 3:10 to Yuma, The Captives, and Moment of Vengeance

13:36 — Rich talks The Law at Randado and Paul looks at Escape from Five Shadow

14:59 — Rich shares some thoughts on Hombre

16:46 — Paul reviews Valdez is Coming

18:40 — Rich and Paul discuss Joe Kidd and Mr. Majestyk

21:30 — A look at 40 Lashes Less One and Cuba Libre

23:45 — Last Stand at Saber River and Gunsights

26:00 — Desperado and High Noon: Part II —The Return of Will Kane

30:19 — Paul goes on patrol with Border Shootout

31:00 — Paul and Rich justify Fire in the Hole and Justified

36:50 — Paul’s take on Silverado (1985) and recommendation of William Johnstone’s Deadtime

38:40 — Rich reviews The White Stallion by John Rose Putnam

40:40 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

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Thanks too to WWA’s Roundup magazine for helping us get the word out about Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Thanks to John Rose Putnam for his exclusive Q&A at:
https://www.sixgunjustice.com/2020/06/western-wordslingersjohn-rose-putnam.html

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MAX ALLAN COLLINS

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0700

Max Allan Collins talks with Paul about Mickey Spillane's western character Caleb York, writing the novelization to the feature film version of Maverick, and more...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—THE WESTERN COMICS SURGE OF THE 1950s

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 03:00:00 -0700

If you were an all-American kid in the winter of 1951, you might be forgiven for not recognizing the sea-change going on in the comic book industry until, like a vast wave from the eastern seabord it swept you up and carried you West. Join Richard Prosch as he rides solo, thundering over a pulpy four-color landscape, tracking down vintage Western Comic Books of the 1950s, including: All-Star Western, Kid Colt Outlaw, Two-Fisted Tales, Simon and Kirby, Dell Comics, and more.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—CHARLES GRAMLICH

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation, Rich Prosch sits down around the campfire with western wordslinger Charles Gramlich to talk writing, westerns, and the upcoming Legend of the Black Rose series...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 9—RANDOLPH SCOTT & THE BULLFIGHTER

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0700

Episode Nine of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast dives into the dynamic duo of Randolph Scott and Budd Boetticher and the brilliant films they made together...Just give Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch 36 minutes to fill you in on seven of the most iconic films of the 1950s. You’d do it for Randolph Scott. (Randolph Scott!!)

01:36 — Paul shares the skinny on the Six-Gun Justice Book Club

02:29 — Rich recommends Steve Hockensmith’s Fathers’ Day Essay at SixGunJustice.com

03:10 — Paul shares Derrick Ferguson’s review of the 1951 film, Westward the Women.

11:30 — Rich’s review of the new Ralph Campton novel, TIN STAR by Jackson Lowry plus

13:50 — Paul and Rich visit about the legends: Randolph Scott and Budd Boetticher

21:36 — Rich and Paul take a look at Randolph Scott’s career, beginning with his Zane Grey series

25:32 — Scott and Boetticher live again — better, together with the Ranown Cycle

29:35 — Rich tracks down Seven Men From Now

31:45 — Paul targets Buchanan Rides Alone

33:01 — Rich visits The Tall T

34:48 — Paul expounds on Decision at Sundown

35:44 — Rich rides along with Ride Lonesome

36:54 — Paul finds Westbound never quite discovers its footing

37:36 — Rich pulls into Comanche Station

40:29 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Thanks to Steve Hockensmith for “Dad’s in the Saddle Again,” at https://www.sixgunjustice.com/2020/06/dads-in-saddle-againa-fathers-day.html

Much gratitude to Robert Vardeman for his exclusive Q&A at https://www.sixgunjustice.com/2020/06/western-wordslingersrobert-vardeman.html

Shout-out to Michael Stradford for his tips on the Seven Men From Now paperback tie-in and Blu Ray set.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—DAVID ROBBINS

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Six-Gun Justice Conversations are a new occasional bonus feature in which Six-Gun Justice co-hosts Paul Bishop or Richard Prosch get to hang out in the virtual Six-Gun Justice Saloon chewing the jerky with friends and writers who also love the western genre. There is no agenda or any particular western subject, simply an informal fifteen minute chat about westerns in whatever media comes up.

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation, Paul sits down at the saloon poker table across from the prolific David Robbins, author of the Wilderness and Endworld series, and gets ready to deal the cards.

Like the full-length Six-Gun Justice Podcast episodes and the Six-Gun Justice Speed Listens, the bonus Six-Gun Justice Conversations are available on all your favorite podcast platforms.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—THE PICCADILLY COWBOYS AND ADULT WESTERNS

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Speed Listen installment of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, host Paul Bishop tells you everything you need to know about the western genre phenomenon of the Piccadilly Cowboys and the Adult Western sub genre in fifteen minutes (give or take)...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—PETER ACKERMAN

Wed, 27 May 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation, Paul Bishop chews the jerky in the Six-Gun Justice virtual saloon with his longtime friend and western TV tie-in collector Peter Ackerman...

Six-Gun Justice Conversations are occasional bonus short editions featuring informal conversations with fans of the Western genre.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 8—GUNSMOKE

Mon, 25 May 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Around Podcast City, and into the territory online, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers: that’s with Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch, Six-Gun Justice, and the smell of GUNSMOKE!

02:59 — Paul shares his praise for Hot Lead No. 4

05:09 — Rich takes a look at Ray Hogan’s Shawn Starbuck series.

05:54 — Paul reviews Television’s Cowboys, Gunfighters & Cap Pistols by Rudy D’Angelo

09:16 — Bobbi Jean Bell’s review of Stardust Trail by J. R. Sanders

11:40 — Paul and Rich ride into Dodge City to talk Gunsmoke.

14:48 — Rich tells the tale of Gunsmoke on Radio

19:00 — Paul leads the discussion: Gunsmoke on TV

30:00 — Team Chester or Team Festus?

35:54 — Who is that anonymous gunfighter in the opening scene?

39:58 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Thanks to Bobbi Jean, Bell Co-Host - “The Writer’s Block Radio Show” on LA Talk Radio -

http://latalkradio.com/content/writers-block and Director of Author Events – “Rendezvous With A Writer OutWest – Where Readers & Writers Meet” For https://www.outwestshop.com/

A Word on Westerns at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgonquinCowboy

Sixgun Justice Westerns is on Facebook, and you can visit our flagship web site for news, reviews, and features at: https://www.sixgunjustice.com Be sure to check out the new Quiz Feature.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—THOMAS RIZZO

Wed, 20 May 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Thomas Rizzo is one of the most passionate and hardworking writers in today’s community of Western scribes. From his web site, www.tomrizzo.com, Tom offers a multitude of stories. Subscribers to Tom's newsletter enjoy his quick snippets of forgotten history, entertaining and always education short reads, first thing every weekday morning.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—THE RIFLEMAN

Mon, 18 May 2020 01:00:00 -0700

From September 1958 until April 1963, The Rifleman aired on ABC TV, staring Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain, a widower cattleman homesteader in the fictional town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The first single-parent on primetime TV, McCain’s son, Mark, was portrayed by Johnny Crawford. Other regulars included Paul Fix as town marshal Micah Torrence, Joe Higgins as blacksmith Nels Swenson and Joan Taylor and Hope Summers as general store owners Milly Scott and Hattie Denton, respectively.

Join wordslinger Richard Prosch as he goes behind the scenes with this iconic Western to share stories and trivia.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MARY CONNEALY

Wed, 13 May 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Rich visits with Western romance author Mary Connealy. She is the author of many different books series including High Sierra Sweethearts, Kincaid Brides, Trouble in Texas, Wild at Heart, Cimarron Legacy, Lassoed in Texas, Montana Marriages and Sophie's daughters. Mary is also independently publishing a contemporary romantic suspense series called Garrison's Law.

She's a lifelong Nebraskan (Go Big Red!) and lives with her very own romantic cowboy hero. She's got four grown daughters and four spectacular grandchildren. She is a two-time Carol Award winner and has been a finalist for the Rita and Christy Awards.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 7—FARGO & SUNDANCE

Mon, 11 May 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Episode Seven of the Six-Gun Justice podcast features Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch talking about Ben Haas, aka: John Benteen and his seminal creations for Belmont Tower books, Fargo and Sundance.

01:43 — Rich shares his review of Spotted Tail by David Heska Wanbli Weiden, illustrated by Jim Yellowhawk and Pat Kinsella.

03:49 — Paul takes a look at The Name is Buchanan by Jonas Ward.

05:54 — Rich reviews Hank the Cowdog, a chapter series for young readers by John Erickson.

07:50 — Paul’s latest eBay deal — a bound collection of TV and Movie Western Magazine.

10:50 — Rich and Paul dive into the literary world of Fargo and Sundance.

19:40 — The difference between a pseudonym and a house name.

20:39 — John Benteen’s beginnings at Belmont Tower books.

22:30 — Paul and Rich investigate the mystery of mis-numbered Fargo series

26:00 — Fargo and Faradan

27:50 — Sundance after Ben Haas

29:45 — Rich and Paul agree on Cutler and Rancho Bravo

34:05 — Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Coming up in Episode 08: “Around Dodge City, and into territory on west, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers: that’s with a U.S. Marshal, and the smell of GUNSMOKE!”— premiering Monday, May 25, 2020.

Inspiration for Sixgun Justice comes from the good guys at the Paperback Warrior podcast: http://www.paperbackwarrior.com

Special thanks to the Voices of the West Podcast and the Steve McQueen-centric podcast, Speeding Bullitt.

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Sixgun Justice Westerns is on Facebook, and you can visit our flagship web site for news, reviews, and features at: https://www.sixgunjustice.com

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—CHUCK DIXON

Wed, 06 May 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Six-Gun Justice Conversations are a new occasional bonus feature in which Six-Gun Justice co-hosts Paul Bishop or Richard Prosch get to hang out in the virtual Six-Gun Justice Saloon chewing the jerky with friends and writers who also love the western genre. There is no agenda or any particular western subject, simply an informal fifteen minute chat about westerns in whatever media comes up. In this first Six-Gun Justice Conversation, Paul downs some bad whiskey and pickled pigs feet along with comic book legend and western lover Chuck Dixon...Like the full-length Six-Gun Justice Podcast episodes and the Six-Gun Justice Speed Listens, the bonus Six-Gun Justice Conversations are available on all your favorite podcast platforms.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—TRUE GRIT

Mon, 04 May 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this Speed Listen installment of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, host Paul Bishop tells you everything you need to know about True Grit—the novel and the movies—in under fifteen minutes...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 6—3:10 TO YUMA

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Episode Six of the Six-Gun Justice podcast features Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch pitting the original 3:10 to Yuma (1957) against the 2007 remake, and dipping their toes into Wild Wild West, Legend, Brisco County, Jr. and the beginnings of the Steampunk sub-genre.

01:06 — Rich reviews Coyote's People by Andrew McBride

02:15 — Paul stages a sneak attack on eBay and his Western book shelves and snags some TV tie-ins and The Bells of San Juan by Alan LeMay

03:54 — Rich shares his thoughts on Rio Ruidoso by Preston Lewis

5:28 — Rich and Paul compare and contrast the original 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and its remake, 3:10 to Yuma (2007).

18:18— Weird Westerns and the sub-genre of Steampunk

20:00 — Paul and Rich take a look at Wild Wild West

25:52 — Paul looks at Legend

27:30 — Rich reviews Brisco County, Jr.

28:58 —Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Coming up in Episode 07: A showdown with writer Ben Haas, aka: John Benteen, author of Fargo and Sundance— premiering Monday, May 11, 2020.

Inspiration for Sixgun Justice comes from the good guys at the Paperback Warrior podcast: http://www.paperbackwarrior.com

Special thanks to the Voices of the West Podcast and the Steve McQueen-centric podcast, Speeding Bullitt.

A Word on Westerns at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgonquinCowboy

Sixgun Justice Westerns is on Facebook, and you can visit our flagship web site for news, reviews, and features at: https://www.sixgunjustice.com

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Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

Thanks to our sponsor, Wolfpack Publishing, and all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 03:00:00 -0700

In this fast-draw installment of the Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen series, Richard Prosch takes a run at the popular TV and radio series, Have Gun, Will Travel.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 5—LOUIS L'AMOUR

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 03:00:00 -0700

On this episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch take on one of the Western genre's biggest legends—Louis L'Amour...

03:33 — Paul shares quick reviews of Cry Viva! by William Hopson and Sergeant Gringo by Jack Cummings

05:26 — Rich covers both volumes of The Reel West

07:45 — Paul and Rich offer an overview of Louis L’Amour’s career

13:40 — Rich on L’Amour’s poems and short stories

15:50— Paul talks Hopalong Cassidy

19:27 — Rich’s favorite L’Amour titles

19:54 — Paul reviews the The Iron Marshal movie adaptation

23:34 — Rich and Paul dig into a mixed bag of L’Amour films

31:30 — What about L’Amour’s Lost Treasures?

32:45 —Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Coming up in Episode Six: 3:10 to Yuma (1957) Vs. 3:10 to Yuma (2007), as well as Weird Westerns— premiering Monday, April 27, 2020.

Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal at YouTube: https://youtu.be/aU2VckhQUCA

Inspiration for Sixgun Justice comes from the good guys at the Paperback Warrior podcast: http://www.paperbackwarrior.com

Special thanks to the Voices of the West Podcast and the Steve McQueen-centric podcast, Speeding Bullitt.

A Word on Westerns at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgonquinCowboy

Sixgun Justice Westerns is on Facebook, and you can visit our flagship web site for news, reviews, and features at: https://www.sixgunjustice.com Be sure to check out the new Quiz Feature.

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

Thanks to our sponsor, Wolfpack Publishing, and all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—WESTERN FANZINES

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Welcome to the Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen #3--Western Fanzines.

In this installment, host Paul Bishop tracks down the best in Western fiction magazines, non-fiction magazines, and Western fanzines.

Speed Listens are bi-weekly mini-podcast installments (15 minutes or less) recorded in support of the full-length Six-Gun Justice episodes. Regular co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch trade off hosting Speed Listen installments while continuing to host the regular Six-Gun Justice Podcast episodes together...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 4—THE NEW WEST PART TWO

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Episode Four of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast finds co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch talking about the new crop of western writers who are using the World Wide Web to great advantage.

01:01 — Paul shares his experience at the Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Book Show.

03:58 — Paul and Rich discuss the Whitman TV tie-in books.

06:00 — Rich talks about Whitman’s 1954 entry, Rin-Tin-Tin’s Rinty.

07:16 — Rich tells listeners about indie authors Bill Joiner, Ken Farmer, and Dean Wesley Smith

09:47— Paul shares two terrific titles by Bill Pronzini

11:00 — The Gold Rush of Western Indie E-Books

13:44 — Paul and Rich trade off with some favorite writers including Vonn McKee, Scott Harris, David Edgerley Gates, and Lane Warensky.

21:57 — Paul introduces listeners to B. N. Rundell

24:25 — Rich reviews the short-lived television series, Shane, based on the Jack Schaefer novel starring David Carradine.

25:25 —Paul discovers Tim Conway’s Rango

26:57 —Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

Coming up in Episode Five: Western Icon Louis L’Amour premiering Monday, April 6, 2020.

Inspiration for Sixgun Justice comes from the good guys at the Paperback Warrior podcast: http://www.paperbackwarrior.com

Special thanks to the Voices of the West Podcast and the Steve McQueen-centric podcast, Speeding Bullitt.

A Word on Westerns at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgonquinCowboy

Sixgun Justice Westerns is on Facebook, and you can visit our flagship web site for news, reviews, and features at: https://www.sixgunjustice.com Be sure to check out the new Quiz Feature.

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

Thanks to our sponsor, Wolfpack Publishing, and all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—JOHN WAYNE

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 23:00:00 -0700

SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST—SPEED LISTEN #2
JOHN WAYNE'S LONE STAR MOVIES
Welcome to the second Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. Speed Listens are occasional, down and dirty, mini-podcast installments of 15 minutes or less recorded in support of the full-length Six-Gun Justice episodes. Regular co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch trade off Speed Listen presenting duties while continuing to host the regular Six-Gun Justice Podcast episodes together.

This Speed Listen installment of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast dodges bullets to ride behind the scenes of John Wayne's early Lone Star Westerns...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 3—THE NEW WEST PART ONE

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:00:00 -0700

Co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch launch into an in depth discussion of current western writers living up to the reputations of the icons from the past...

01:18 — Paul and Rich share a few reviews, including Muskrat Hill by Easy Jackson, the Australian TV-show, Mystery Road, Where the Wildflowers Dance by Phil Mills, Jr.

06:22 —What was the first western book Rich ever read?

07:53 —What western titles did Paul read first?

10:31 -Paul reviews O’Rourke’s Revenge and Whiskey When We’re Dry.

12:22— Paul and Rich go beyond the usual suspects of Louis L’Amour and Max Brand to shine a light on contemporary western writers who are dominating traditional Western publishing.

14:00 — A look at the William W. Johnstone titles.

16:09 — Where to start reading Johnstone?

17:54 — Paul’s Ralph Compton title recommendations.

19:29 — Rich and Paul visit about their own personal histories in the cowboy way.

22:58 —Paul and Rich go back and forth, sharing their favorite western writers and their best books.

28:15 — More western memories.

32:40 —Shoot-outs and Shout-outs

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—MAGNIFICENT 7

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 03:00:00 -0700

Welcome to the very first Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. Speed Listens are occasional short podcast installments in support of our full-length Six-Gun Justice episodes. There is no set release schedule for Speed Listen installments, but regular co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch will trade off presenting duties when the opportunities for Speed Listens arise while continuing to host the regular podcast episodes together.

This Speed Listen installment of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast dodges bullets to ride behind the scenes of The Magnificent Seven...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 2—THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN VS. THE WILD BUNCH

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:00:00 -0800

On Episode Two of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast, co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch share their latest adventures in western reading and offer up their views on two iconic movies as they discuss the pros, cons, and comparisons between The Magnificent Seven and The Wild Bunch...

01:20 — Rich and Paul talk about the latest batch of western books they’re reading, including a new short story anthology, vintage titles by Brian Garfield, reference books on Rawhide, Wagon Train, The Wild Wild West, and a unique western paperback checklist.

05:41 — Paul and Rich engage in a free-wheeling conversation comparing and contrasting The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Wild Bunch (1969).

09:08 — Paul’s summary of The Magnificent Seven

10:35 — Rich’s summary of The Wild Bunch

11:31 — Discussing director Sam Peckinpah

14:00 — Reviewing the bridge explosion scene in The Wild Bunch

16:50 — Looking at the portrayal of women and children in both films

18:32 — The importance of each film at the time of its release--and now

24:58 —Rich reviews Champagne Cowboys by Leo W. Banks

27:04: Paul reviews Gun Glory by R.A. Jones

Coming up in Episode Three: The New West (Part 1) premiering Monday, March 16, 2020.

Inspiration for Six-Gun Justice comes from the good guys at the Paperback Warrior podcast: http://www.paperbackwarrior.com

Six-Gun Justice Westerns is on Facebook, and you can visit our flagship web site for news, reviews, and features at: https://www.sixgunjustice.com

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

Thanks to our sponsor, Wolfpack Publishing, and all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 1—WEST OF THE IMAGINATION

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0800

The first official episode finds hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch visiting about book store finds, sharing reviews and discussing Paul’s favorite western, The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker.

02:00 — Rich describes a recent visit to Springfield, Missouri’s Half-Price Bookstore and shares his finds. Books mentioned include The Comancheros by Paul Wellman, Jim Steel #6—Aztec Gold by Chet Cunningham, and the Fury series by Jim Austin, a.k.a. James Reasoner and L. J. Washburn.

06:36 — Paul continues the conversation with the show’s main feature, an overview of The Cowboy and the Cossack, the story of a 19th century cattle drive across the Siberian trail.

10:28 — Why no movie version? Paul explains, and Rich mentions Huffaker’s work on The War Wagon.

12:01 — Rich reviews The Sons of Philo Gaines by Michael R. Ritt.

16:06 — Paul and Rich discuss Western Fictioneers

16:58 — Paul reviews Hot Lead Cold Justice by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.

The episode finishes up with Paul and Rich trading their current reading list and chatting about the Owlhoot APA.

Thanks to John Kilgallon for being our first Patreon member.

Episode Two: The Magnificent Seven Vs. The Wild Bunch will premiere Monday, February 7th, 2020.

Learn more about Western Fictioneers: http://www.westernfictioneers.com and https://westernfictioneers.blogspot.com

True West magazine: https://www.truewestmagazine.com

Inspiration for Sixgun Justice comes from the good guys at the Paperback Warrior podcast: http://www.paperbackwarrior.com

Sixgun Justice Westerns is on Facebook, and you can visit our flagship web site for news, reviews, and features at: https://www.sixgunjustice.com

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

Thanks to our sponsor, Wolfpack Publishing, and all our friends and listeners.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 0—UNPLUGGED

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:00:00 -0800

In this introductory episode, hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch talk about the inspiration and goals for the podcast while offering up their favorite western genre authors, TV shows, and movies.

The free-wheeling conversation offers quick takes on writers Steve Frazee, Louis L’Amour, Ben Haas, Clair Huffaker, Frank O’Rourke, Mari Sandoz and others.

Paul shares his love for The Magnificent Seven, The Professionals, Steve McQueen in Wanted: Dead or Alive, and Clint Walker in Cheyenne. Rich opines on Ride the High Country, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Maverick, and is challenged on The Rifleman.

Episode One: West of the Imagination will premiere Monday, February 24, 2020.

Help out a western TV legend at The Johnny Crawford Alzheimer’s Fund: https://tinyurl.com/wtykt7o

Be sure to pick up the single best western fanzine ever, Justin Marriott’s Hot Lead: https://amzn.to/2GhShZR_

Inspiration for Sixgun Justice comes from the good guys at the Paperback Warrior podcast: http://www.paperbackwarrior.com

Sixgun Justice Westerns is on Facebook, and you can visit our flagship web site for news, reviews, and features at: https://www.sixgunjustice.com

Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixgunjustice

Please drop us an email at: sixgunjusticewesterns@gmail.com

Thanks to our sponsor, Wolfpack Publishing, and all our friends and listeners.

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