An H.H. Lomax Western, Book 7<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n by PRESTON LEWIS<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Genre: Western \/ Humor \/ Historical Fiction<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Date of Publication: January 4, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Number of Pages: 228 pages <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Against a backdrop of a pending world heavyweight championship bout, Lomax heads to El Paso to interest someone in writing and publishing Bean\u2019s biography. He winds up in an El Paso boarding house across the hall from Texas killer John Wesley Hardin. They despise each other, but Hardin fears Lomax\u2019s straight-arrow Texas Ranger brother and treads lightly around Lomax. Because of Hardin\u2019s crooked connections in El Paso, Lomax gets caught between him and corrupt constable John Selman.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n El Paso is becoming the focal point of efforts to host a championship prizefight that everyone from the Presidents of the United States and Mexico to the governors of Texas, New Mexico Territory and Chihuahua have vowed to stop. Calling on his connections to his Ranger brother, El Paso officials and the promoter of the boxing match, Lomax uses his Judge Roy Bean friendship to pull off the oddest prizefight in heavyweight history.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Outlaw West of the Pecos<\/em> stands as an entertaining mix of historical and hysterical fiction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n CLICK TO PURCHASE!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u2502Amazon<\/a>\u2502<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n In 2021 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his literary accomplishments. Lewis is past president of Western Writers of America and the West Texas Historical Association.<\/p>\n His historical novel Blood of Texas<\/em> on the Texas Revolution earned a Spur Award as did his True West<\/em> article on the Battle of Yellow House Canyon. He developed the Memoirs of H.H. Lomax series, which includes two Spur finalists and a Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award for western humor for his novel Bluster\u2019s Last Stand<\/em> on the battle of Little Big Horn. His comic western The Fleecing of Fort Griffin<\/em> and two of his YA novels have won Elmer Kelton Awards for best creative work on West Texas from the West Texas Historical Association. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n He began his writing career working for Texas daily newspapers in Abilene, Waco, Orange, and Lubbock before going into university administration. During his 35-year career in higher education, he directed communications and marketing offices at Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and Angelo State University. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Lewis holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism from Baylor University and master\u2019s degrees from Ohio State in journalism and Angelo State in history. He lives in San Angelo with his wife, Harriet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u25c6 WEBSITE<\/a> \u25c6 FACEBOOK<\/a> \u25c6 AMAZON<\/a> \u25c6 GOODREADS<\/a>\u25c6<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click the blog names for direct links to book reviews & special features. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/outlaw.jpg\")
ABOUT THE BOOK: <\/strong>Accused of cheating at cards on a Southern Pacific passenger train in far West Texas, H.H. Lomax is kicked off the train and finds himself at the mercy of the unpredictable justice of Judge Roy Bean, who calls himself \u201cLaw West of the Pecos.\u201d After being fined of all his money, married, and divorced by the judge in a matter of minutes, Lomax discovers an unlikely connection to him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: <\/strong>Preston Lewis is the Spur Award-winning author of 40 westerns, historical novels, juvenile books, and memoirs. He has received national awards for his novels, articles, short stories, and humor.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/LoneStarBookBlogTours_6.png\")
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