James,
Re your recollection below:
> I think John Byrne Cooke's THE SNOWBLIND MOON
won
> both the Novel of the West
> Spur and the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award
> (technically not a Spur, although
> it's given by the WWA) for Best First
Novel.
You're right. I stand corrected (though I wasn't speaking EX
CATHEDRA and allowed as how I'd have to check to make
sure).
I count the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award as equivalent to a
Spur. In fact, the actual award for Best First Novel is now a
regular Spur trophy, rather than a stylized Indian medicine
pipe as in years past.
> One of Cooke's other historical novels,
THE
> COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE, is about
> San Francisco's Barbary Coast and might
be
> hardboiled enough to interest
> some readers here.
Another one of Cooke's novels that might interest RA members
is SOUTH OF THE BORDER. It purports to be an unpublished
manuscript by real-life frontier private eye turned writer
Charlie Siringo, and tells the story of how Siringo, now
retired and living in Hollywood just after WW1, is hired to
work as a screenwriter/security agent during the location
shooting of a Western movie in Mexico. Along the way he
crosses paths with revolutionary Pancho Villa and the
long-thought-dead train robber, Butch Cassidy (a guy Siringo
almost caught in real life).
JIM DOHERTY
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