Globe Pequot / TwoDot
Pages: 256
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4930-3194-8 • Paperback • April 2018 • $17.95 • (£13.99)
978-1-4930-3195-5 • eBook • April 2018 • $16.99 • (£12.99)
Born and raised in Chicago, D. J. Herda worked for years at The Chicago Tribune, as well as at numerous other Chicago-area newspapers and magazines, before becoming an internationally syndicated columnist.
Herda’s interest in Western Americana goes back to his childhood. He has published on the subjects of Doc Holliday, Frank and Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, Wyatt Earp, and other Western legends. He has written “Forts of the American West” and other articles for American West, Arizona Highways, and other magazines. His fascination with Calamity Jane stretches back to his earliest recollections, and he has been researching her life for decades, convinced that one day he would chronicle the story of the real Martha Jane Cannary in a book. D. J. Herda has lived in the Rocky Mountains of the southwestern United States for nearly three decades.