Hi everyone, I have a very special update here and I've been waiting a long time for

this one.

I think a good number of you know that I've been writing a book for the past two years,

but I've never given any detail about it.

I know at least one very industrious listener who follows us on Twitter has already found

a link online to buy it and won't mention her name, but well done to her.

She did some digging and discovered the book on her own.

For everyone who hasn't done some online sleuthing, it's time for the official announcement.

The book is called Summer of 1876, Outlaws, Lawmen and Legends in the season that defined

the American West.

It's a nonfiction book that comes straight out of the Legends of the Old West podcast.

Published by a major publisher, St. Martin's Press, which is a division of McMillan, one

of the biggest publishers in America.

Everyone at St. Martin's has been great and I'm working with lots of different people

right now to roll out the launch of the book.

It still weighs away and I'll get to that in a second, but here's the quick version

of the book.

It chronicles the huge overlapping stories that all happened in a three month period in

the summer of 1876.

So you're going to get the story of Custer, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Battle of

the Little Big Horn, Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson on patrol in Dodge City together for the

first time.

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