W Michael Farmer

W. Michael Farmer combines in-depth research into nineteenth-century history and culture with southwest experience to fill his stories with a genuine sense of time and place. His first novel, Hombrecito's War , won a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award for Best First Novel in 2006 and was a New Mexico Book Award Finalist for Historical Fiction in 2007. His other novels include: The Trial of Oliver Lee and James Gililland; Killer of Witches: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero...See more

W. Michael Farmer combines in-depth research into nineteenth-century history and culture with southwest experience to fill his stories with a genuine sense of time and place. His first novel, Hombrecito's War , won a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award for Best First Novel in 2006 and was a New Mexico Book Award Finalist for Historical Fiction in 2007. His other novels include: The Trial of Oliver Lee and James Gililland; Killer of Witches: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, Book 1 , 2016 finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award and New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards; Mariana's Knight, The Revenge of Henry Fountain, Legends of the Desert, Book 1, and Blood of the Devil: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, Book 2. See less