Sam Bass was just a farm boy from Indiana, but he wound up in Texas and became one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of the Old West. Texas history has often referred to Bass as "Texas' Beloved Bandit" or "Robin Hood on a Fast Horse" Jerry Guin's historical novel THE BANDIT takes an unflinching look at the life and times of Sam Bass, from his almost accidental incursion into a life of lawlessness to his ill-fated end, and provides a vivid portrait of this violent era. Western Fictioneers is proud to present the latest entry in the acclaimed West of the Big River series.

Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. In the first part of our Christmas anthology set, several new people come to town and enter our saga, just in time for Christmas. ROMAN HATCHETT (Jory Sherman), a world-weary trapper; PHOEBE WRIGHT (Meg Mims), a tireless reformer; GIB NORWOOD (Jacquie Rogers), a dairy farmer with a mixed-race family and a habit of annoying the thuggish cowhands of evil cattle baron Andrew Rogers. Among our regular cast, CHARLEY BLACKFEATHER (Troy D. Smith) parleys with Kiowa leaders on Christmas Eve, deputy marshal QUINT CROY (Jerry Guin) tries to soften the hearts of Wolf Creek's hardest citizens, and livery owner BEN TOLLIVER (James J. Griffin) gets several big holiday surprises...