More Cat Tales of the Old West - Lewis, Preston
15,99 €
inkl. MwSt.

Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
  • Broschiertes Buch

In More Cat Tales of the Old West: Triumphs, Trials & Trivia of Frontier Felines, two-time Spur Award recipient Preston Lewis pulls together another amusing and eclectic collection of articles from western newspaper reports on frontier cats. In the sequel to his award-winning Cat Tales of the Old West: Poems, Puns & Perspectives on Frontier Felines, Lewis provides another engaging look at frontier felines from the perspective of pioneering times. The author in More Cat Tales of the Old West examines cats as frontier fighters, homebodies, workers, miners, criminals, and actors with enough…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
In More Cat Tales of the Old West: Triumphs, Trials & Trivia of Frontier Felines, two-time Spur Award recipient Preston Lewis pulls together another amusing and eclectic collection of articles from western newspaper reports on frontier cats. In the sequel to his award-winning Cat Tales of the Old West: Poems, Puns & Perspectives on Frontier Felines, Lewis provides another engaging look at frontier felines from the perspective of pioneering times. The author in More Cat Tales of the Old West examines cats as frontier fighters, homebodies, workers, miners, criminals, and actors with enough colorful period anecdotes to satisfy both the cat lover and the cat hater. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Chris Enss, More Cat Tales of the Old West provides an educational perspective on Old West history. An authority on cats in the Old West, Lewis has published articles on the subject in periodicals such as Wild West and Journal of the Wild West History Association. His first book on the topic, Cat Tales of the Old West received a Will Rogers Bronze Medallion Award for written western humor. In 2024 More Cat Tales of the Old West was named a Spur Finalist by Western Writers of America. More Cat Tales of the Old West is catnip for feline fans and frontier aficionados interested in frontier history with a twist of the cat's tail.
Autorenporträt
Author and historian Preston Lewis has written more than 50 fiction and nonfiction works. In 2021 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his literary accomplishments. His writing honors include two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America and three Elmer Kelton Awards from the West Texas Historical Association. He has received ten Will Rogers Medallion Awards for western humor, short stories, traditional westerns and nonfiction articles. In 2024 he earned an inaugural Literary Global Independent Author Award in the Western Nonfiction category for Cat Tales of the Old West as well as two finalist designations in the Memoir and Humor categories. Lewis is best known for his eight-book comic western series "The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax," which has garnered him a silver and three gold Will Rogers Medallion Awards. His nonfiction articles and short stories have appeared in True West, Wild West, Persimmon Hill, Journal of the Wild West Historical Association, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times-Herald and Louis L'Amour Western Magazine. He is a past president of Western Writers of America and the West Texas Historical Association, which named him a fellow in 2016. Lewis holds degrees in journalism from Baylor and Ohio State universities and a master's degree in history from Angelo State University. He resides in San Angelo with his wife Harriet Kocher Lewis.