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Preston Lewis

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Preston Lewis is the Spur Award-winning author of more than 45 western, juvenile and historical novels on the Old West as well as numerous articles, short stories and book reviews on the American frontier.

Lewis wrote the well-received "Memoirs of H.H. Lomax," a comic western series published by Wolfpack Publishing. "Bluster's Last Stand" and "First Herd to Abilene," the fourth and fifth books in the series, received Will Rogers Gold Medallion Awards for western humor. "North to Alaska," the sixth book in the series, earned a Will Rogers Silver Medallion Award for written humor. Previous books in the series in order of publication were "The Demise of Billy the Kid," "The Redemption of Jesse James" and "Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral." The latter Preston Lewis is the Spur Award-winning author of more than 45 western, juvenile and historical novels on the Old West as well as numerous articles, short stories and book reviews on the American frontier.

Lewis wrote the well-received "Memoirs of H.H. Lomax," a comic western series published by Wolfpack Publishing. "Bluster's Last Stand" and "First Herd to Abilene," the fourth and fifth books in the series, received Will Rogers Gold Medallion Awards for western humor. "North to Alaska," the sixth book in the series, earned a Will Rogers Silver Medallion Award for written humor. Previous books in the series in order of publication were "The Demise of Billy the Kid," "The Redemption of Jesse James" and "Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral." The latter two were both Spur Finalists from Western Writers of America.

His western "Blood of Texas," originally written under his Will Camp pseudonym, received WWA's Spur Award for best western novel. Lewis's 2016 western "The Fleecing of Fort Griffin," another comic novel, received the Elmer Kelton Award for best creative work on West Texas from the West Texas Historical Association. It was Lewis's third Kelton award.

Lewis's True West article on the battle of Yellowhouse Canyon also won a Spur Award. His book publishers have included Bantam, HarperCollins, Pinnacle, Eakin Press and Wild Horse Press. His short works have appeared in publications as varied as Louis L'Amour Western Magazine and Dallas Morning News.

Eakin Press published his three young adult novels on animals from frontier Texas: "They Call Me Old Blue," "Blanca is My Name" and "Just Call Me Uncle Sam."

Two of his short stories published by Five Star--"A Grave Too Many" and "The Hope Chest"--have received Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award.

In 2021 he published "Cat Tales of the Old West," his first nonfiction book, under the imprint of Bariso Press. In 2023 he published "More Cat Tales of the Old West."

When he is not writing or researching, Lewis enjoys traveling and photographing historic sites of the Old West and the Civil War. ...more

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	Preston Lewis Western Collection 2 4.27 avg rating — 249 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preston Lewis Western Collection, Volume 1 4.34 avg rating — 224 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Herd to Abilene (Memoirs of H.H. Lomax Series #5) 4.26 avg rating — 85 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North To Alaska: An H.H. Lomax Western 4.55 avg rating — 38 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bluster’s Last Stand: The Complete Tales of H.H. Lomax 4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Demise of Billy the Kid (Memoirs of H.H. Lomax, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outlaw West of the Pecos: An H.H. Lomax Western (H.H. Lomax, #7) 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rio Ruidoso 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Call of the Wilde: An H.H. Lomax Western 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Redemption of Jesse James (The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax #2) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“enough to suck eggs out”
― Preston Lewis, Bluster’s Last Stand: The Complete Tales of H.H. Lomax

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“Wheew. She's mean enough to suck eggs out of a widow woman's basket and cunning enough to hide the shells on her neighbor's porch.”
― Preston Lewis, Bluster’s Last Stand: The Complete Tales of H.H. Lomax

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