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Writer Captures New Dimensions of Old West Legends Pat Garrett and Billy the Kidnew

Growing up in a small Missouri town in "the heart of Jesse James country," Mark Lee Gardner and his friends would chase each other through the schoolyard pantomiming holdups, manhunts and violent showdowns. "We all wanted to be Jesse James," he muses.

Colorado Springs Independent | Jill Thomas | 02-09-2010 | Nonfiction

Tags: Mark Lee Gardner, To Hell on a Fast Horse

Timothy Egan Digs into Small-town Americanew

As Egan researched the Dust Bowl, it turned into a story of what happens when people — pushed by their government — abuse the land and destroy an entire ecosystem; in this case, the grasslands of the Great Plains.

Colorado Springs Independent | Kirsten Aikens | 09-23-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan

Stephen Singular on Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffsnew

His current book details the rise of Warren Jeffs, the leader of the FLDS, who was convicted on two counts of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.

Colorado Springs Independent | Jill Thomas | 07-29-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Mormons, polygamy, Warren Jeffs, FLDS, Nonfiction Reviews, Stephen Singular, When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back

Food Flightnew

The food-expert couple the Jamisons ate their way around the world, and you can savor their tales.

Colorado Springs Independent | Archana Pyati | 04-01-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure, Bill and Cheryl Jamison, Nonfiction Reviews

Mark Jenkins' Excellent Adventurenew

And so we come to Jenkins, author and former Outside columnist, who stands in the face of his clownish peers as an authentic adventurer.

Colorado Springs Independent | Matt Martin | 11-20-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: A Man's Life, Mark Jenkins, Nonfiction Reviews

Mike Jones Shares His 'Art'new

It's barely been six months since this male escort from Denver brought one of the nation's most powerful evangelicals to his knees for the last time, and already the book version is about to fly off the shelves into the eager, upturned sweaty palms of the masses.

Colorado Springs Independent | Cara DeGette | 05-25-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Haggard, Sex, Mike Jones, I Had to Say Something: The Art of Ted Haggard's Fall