Goodreads asked Rusty Williams:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Rusty Williams I have to thank the late novelist, Tony Hillerman. Before he began writing his hugely popular Navaho novels, Hillerman was a wire service reporter in Oklahoma. According to his autobiography, he was assigned to interview an old man living in a transient’s hotel in Tishomingo. It was a former governor, W. H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, the man who “won” the Texas-Oklahoma Red River Bridge War in the 1930s. I know a lot of regional history, but I’d never heard of the bridge war. I began researching it and found a delightful story of how Oklahoma and Texas armed up and went to war of a two-bit toll bridge.

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