John D. Nesbitt is the author of more than forty books, including traditional westerns, crossover western mysteries, contemporary western fiction, retro/noir fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He has won the Western Writers of America Spur Award four times—twice for paperback novel, once for short story, and once for poem. He has won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award twice—once for novel and once for short story. He has been a finalist for the Spur Award twice, the Peacemaker seven times, and the Will Rogers Medallion Award eight times. He has also received two creative writing fellowships with the Wyoming Arts Council—once for fiction, once for nonfiction–and he has won the fiction award four times with the Wyoming State Historical Society. Visit his website at www.johndnesbitt.com

Praise for John D. Nesbitt

“Once again Nesbitt tells a complicated story with the kind of complex characterization for which he is best known.”
—Roundup Magazine (For the Norden Boys)

“For the Norden Boys rings as true as a triangle around the chuckwagon at suppertime.”
—True West (For the Norden Boys)

"Black Hat Butte has stronger characterization than is found in the average traditional Western, but then John Nesbitt isn't an average writer."
—Roundup Magazine

"John Nesbitt knows working cowboys and ranch life well enough for you to chew the dirt with his characters as this tale unfolds."
—True West

"Nesbitt creates characters so real, you can hear them talk if you close your eyes."
—Roundup Magazine

"Nesbitt is a true artist."
—Western American Literature