Certain facts about Belle Starr are known and recorded. When she was young the outlaw Cole Younger seduced her, got her pregnant, and abandoned her. Dressing in plumes and Stetson, she took on the role of a fallen woman, theatrically and publicly. Ye...
An “engaging” novel of hardship, danger, and frontier adventure in the Oklahoma Territory at the end of the nineteenth century (Publishers Weekly). The Oklahoma Territory is a bleak, brutal place in 1894, especially for Tom Freshour, a hal...
Tom Freshour needs a vacation. It's the dusty, hot summer of 1934, and he'd like to escape both the heat in western Arkansas and his cases at the county prosecutor's office for the calm and solitude of a fishing trip. But his old Ford won...
Speer Morgan shares his powerful memories through short fiction that moves from the sloughs of mid-Arkansas to the fifth floor of a wholesale hardware company that overlooks Indian Territory, to a house haunted by a bad cat, to the living room of a w...
A coon hunter stumbles onto a trailer full of brightly lit computer terminals . . . and one electrocuted corpse. A cop stops a car with the drug-wired daughter of the president of DataForm--a transplanted Silicon Valley security firm....
American Book Award recipient Speer Morgan offers “The Girl,” winner of Prairie Schooner’s Lawrence Foundation Prize for best story of 2000, and “The Big Bang,” winner of Shenandoah’s Goodheart Prize for best story of 2007, among others, ...