Down From the Mountains - The High Plains Gunman (ePub)

Voyle Glover has spent most of his years practicing law. His early years were spent in Arizona where he learned to love all things Western. His love of the Old West and the many stories about the outlaws, settlers, Indians and pioneers captured his imagination.

In the '70's, Glover wrote his first western story and it was published in Far West, a western fiction publication that was located in California. He went on to have several more of his short stories, and two novellas published by Far West.

Law School interrupted his writing career and it has only been in the last few of years that he's been "back in the saddle" writing westerns. His favorite western fiction author was Louis L'Amour, whom he calls "The Dean of Western Fiction."

Glover admits that L'Amour has influenced his writing more than any other writer. He insists on writing his stories and adhering to the traditions of L'Amour, to wit, a strong, rugged and self-reliant hero, with historically accurate settings, and characters that jump right off the pages of the history of the Old West and into his stories.

Glover says of L'Amour: "There is no writer of western fiction to match Louis L'Amour. He's the only western fiction writer whose books I'll read more than once."

He tells of the time soon after he'd written his first western, when he wrote a letter to L'Amour asking his advice about agents. L'Amour actually replied to him in a typed letter, replete with a few typos. He congratulated Glover on getting his first story published in the premier issue of Far West, a California publication, then noted that they'd be sharing that issue. L'Amour was featured on the cover page and Glover also found himself listed on the cover page, right beneath his all-time favourite western author.

He says of that moment: "I was shocked that he actually took the time to reply, but wow, what an honor to be on the cover page with the Dean of Western Fiction, Louis L'Amour."