The Windigo

by Troy D. Smith

Prospectors lost in the North woods during a cold, desolate winter are on the verge of starving. With no game, no supplies, and no idea which way to travel, they are desperate. An eerie howling that raises the hackles of even the bravest among them travels on the cold wind. Could it be the Windigo?Read the whole Blackwell series! "Blackwell's Run" was nominated for the 2011 Peacemaker Award for best western short story!• The Blackwell Claim• Blackwell the Highwayman• Blackwell Unchained• Blackwell's Star• Blackwell's Stand• The Divided Prey• Blackwell's Run• The Windigo• The Blackwell Raid

25 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 27, 2010

About the author

Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He is currently teaching American history at Tennessee Tech, and serving as president of Western Fictioneers -the first national writing organization devoted exclusively to fiction about the Old West.