Peacemaker Award Finalists Announced

7TH ANNUAL PEACEMAKER BEST FIRST NOVEL: Echoes of Massacre Canyon by Ben Goheen aka Ben Tyler (Five Star Publishing) Silence Rides Alone by Ian Charles Millsted (Sundown Press) The River of Cattle by Alice V. Brock (Pen-L Publishing) The Silver Baron’s Wife by Danna Baier Stein (Serving House Books) The Wanted Lawman by A.C. Smith (Gray Ghost Publishing)   BEST NOVEL: Dead Man’s Boot by Patrick Dearen (Five Star Publishing) Far West: The Diary of Eleanor Higgins by Linell Jeppsen (Wolfpack Publishing) Gun Devils of the Rio Grande by James Reasoner (Rough Edges Press) Killing Blood by Robert D. McKee (Five Star Publishing) BEST WESTERN YA/CHILDREN FICTION: Calamity Jane: How the West Began by Bryan Ney (Dragon Tree Books) Good Water by John Nesbitt (Five Star Publishing) Grandpa and the Kid by Cliff Hudgins (Wolfpack Publishing) Lone Star Ranger 7: A Ranger Redeemed by James J. Griffin (Painted Pony Books) The River of Cattle by Alice V. Brock (Pen-L Publishing) BEST SHORT FICTION: Jake Silvershorn's Revenge - Vol. 10 Final Showdown, by Big Jim Williams (High Noon Press) Museum Piece by Brian Koukol (The Missing Slate) Odell's Bones by Troy Smith (Cane Hollow Press) Widelooping a Christmas Cowboy by Livia J. Washburn (A Cowboy under the Mistletoe, Prairie Rose Publications)