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ELL, FOLKS, HERE IT is, the Winter, 2020 issue, and it may well be our best yet. We’ve got cowboys, lawmen, Native Americans and mountain men. We offer wild horses, pickup trucks, buckboards and wagons. The only question is which adventure do you want to dive into first? In this issue, we have the third exciting installment of award-winning author J.B. Hogan’s serial novella, The Last Rider. If you missed the first two parts— or just want to catch back up on them again—you can find them among our back issues at www. saddlebagdispatches.com. But don’t you dare stop there. In a non-descript western town and in Civil Wartorn Texas, young men come to manhood while facing down the local bully. A small-town boy’s obsession with a movie star, turns him into a stalker and a murderer, while a young cowboy falls for yet another movie star and bears the burden for life. A witch is loose on the Navajo reservation, and ghosts walk and ride the hills from New Mexico to Montana. There’s a murder mystery in the desert and a romance among the prickly pears. Rustlers strike a cattle drive, and a lawman is born from tragedy. Ride along on a quest to capture a wild mustang. After you finish with our award-winning short fiction, though, there’s still so much more. Turn the
page and find what has fascinated some of our great nonfiction writers this time out. Learn the real story of Tom Starr with author Regina McLemore and how he came to be branded an outlaw. Read an excerpt from the fantastic new biographical novel, Friends Call Me Bat, then get to know it’s author, the talented and equally down-to-earth Paul Colt, as he sits down for a talk with Saddlebag Dispatches Feature Writer George “Clay” Mitchell for our Winter, 2020 cover feature. Mosey on down Memory Lane with popculture columnist Terry Alexander as he recounts the classic Western silver screen moments of Linda Cristal and the immortal Kirk Douglas. It’s all here, wrapped in a big ol’ bow, just for you. If there’s something we missed, or something that you’d like to see more of, feel free to drop us a note at dennis@oghmacreative.com. While 2020 has been a long and arduous year, we wish you all a safe and prosperous 2021 and hope you all enjoy reading our magazine as much as we love bringing it to you. In the meantime, look for our Summer issue in early July. Thanks for visiting us at Saddlebag Dispatches. Pull up a log, a rock, or a camp chair, pour yourself a cup from the camp pot, and enjoy.
—Dennis Doty Publisher
