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Patrick Dearen

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A 2022 inductee in the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, Patrick Dearen is the author of 18 novels and 10 nonfiction books, including primary-sourced histories. Born in 1951, he 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.

An authority on the Pecos and Devils rivers of Texas, Dearen also has gained recognition for his knowledge of old-time cowboy life. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he preserved the firsthand accounts of 76 men who cowboyed before 1932. These interviews, along with decades of archival study, have enriched Dearen’s novels. His newest nonfictio
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Average rating: 3.89 · 285 ratings · 60 reviews · 38 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Big Drift

3.85 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
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Dead Man's Boot

3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings5 editions
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Apache Lament

4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions
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Grizzly Moon

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Saddling Up Anyway: The Dan...

3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
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Bitter Waters: The Struggle...

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Haunted Border (Five Star W...

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To Hell or the Pecos, a novel

4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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A Cowboy of the Pecos

3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions
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When the Sky Rained Dust

4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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2024 Spur Award finalist

Western Writers of America (WWA) has named my novel "Grizzly Moon" a finalist for the prestigious 2024 Spur Award for western traditional novel.

Since 1953 the Spur Awards have honored the nation's most outstanding works in western literature. My novel "The Big Drift" won the Spur Award in 2015, and another of my novels, "When Cowboys Die," was a finalist in 1995.

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Published on March 11, 2024 09:13 Tags: award, bears, grizzly, spur-awards, texas-fiction, western-novels
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