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Preston Lewis

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Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Humor and Comedy

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Preston Lewis is the award-winning author of more than 50 novels and nonfiction works. His honors include three Spur Awards from Western Writers of America and ten Will Rogers Gold Medallion Awards (six gold, two silver, two bronze) for traditional westerns, western humor, nonfiction articles and short stories.

In 2025 he was named recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Will Rogers Medallion Awards for his contributions to the literature of the American West. In 2021 Lewis was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his literary accomplishments.

His books have been published by both national and regional publishers. In 2021 he and his wife Harriet Kocher Lewis established Bariso Press and have published ten books. Of th ...more

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Average rating: 4.35 · 970 ratings · 199 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	Preston Lewis Western Collection 2 4.26 avg rating — 261 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preston Lewis Western Collection 1 4.36 avg rating — 233 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Herd to Abilene (Memoirs of H.H. Lomax Series #5) 4.24 avg rating — 88 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North To Alaska (H.H. Lomax 6) 4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bluster’s Last Stand: The Complete Tales of H.H. Lomax 4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rio Ruidoso 4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Demise of Billy the Kid (Memoirs of H.H. Lomax, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rio Hondo 4.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Call of the Wilde: An H.H. Lomax Western 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outlaw West of the Pecos: An H.H. Lomax Western (H.H. Lomax, #7) 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Check out pages 30-37 of the January Lone Star Literary Life Magazine online, which features my article on Texas novels essential to understand the Texas frontier psyche. In “Texas Reads” I list four novelists—Larry McMurtry, Elmer Kelton, Fred Gipson and Fred Grove—who deserve to be enshrined on the Mount Rushmore of Texas frontier fic

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Three Rivers Trilogy (3 books)
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Memoirs of H.H. Lomax (1 book)
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Magic Machine Series (2 books)
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Preston Lewis rated a book it was amazing The River Ghost by Thomas D Clagett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A Gothic Western with a Pounding Heartbeat The River Ghost provides a poignant, haunting and suspenseful look at a supernatural frontier legend set in 1883 Santa Fe. Thomas Clagett’s Gothic Western populates the authentic New Mexico Territory setting ...more
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A Hollywood Masterpiece! While I am not an authority on Hollywood and the movies, I have read a variety of books on the topic over the years. Thomas D. Clagett's William Friedkin: Films of Aberration, Obsession and Reality stands as one of the best wi ...more
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“Wheew. She's mean enough to suck eggs out of a widow woman's basket and cunning enough to hide the shells on her neighbor's porch.”
― Preston Lewis, Bluster’s Last Stand: The Complete Tales of H.H. Lomax

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“enough to suck eggs out”
― Preston Lewis, Bluster’s Last Stand: The Complete Tales of H.H. Lomax

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