Welcome to Saddlebag Dispatches, the Award-Winning Home of Great Western Fiction. We've got cowboys, lawmen, Native Americans, and mountain men. We offer wild horses, pickup trucks, buckboards, wagons, and more. Leading our lineup this issue is our exclusive interview with legendary Western star Robert Fuller of such television classics as Laramie and Wagon Train. Author J.B. Hogan returns with Part Four of his long-running serial novel, The Last Rider, leading a star-studded roster of fictioneers including Spur Award-winning authors Richard Prosch and Phil Mills, Jr., Willa Award-winner Velda Brotherton, John T. Biggs, Jacob Bayne, Kathleen Morris, Neala Ames, and Sharon Frame Gay. We've got Cowboy Poetry from Will Rogers Medallion Award-winner Marleen Bussma, R.G. Yoho, and Phil Mills, Jr., and nonfiction articles and columns from Terry Alexander, Paul Bishop, Regina McLemore, Michael McLean, Barbara Clouse, and more. Last but certainly not least, we're proud to announce the winners of our Inaugural Saddlebag Dispatches Mustang Award for Flash Fiction, including stories from all three of our winners and the top five honorable mentions. This is the place where Western stories come to be told, folks. The only question is which adventure do you want to dive into first?

Welcome to Saddlebag Dispatches, the Award-Winning Home of Great Western Fiction. We've got cowboys, lawmen, Native Americans, and mountain men. We offer wild horses, pickup trucks, buckboards, wagons, and more. In the spotlight this issue is our exclusive interview with prolific and award-winning Western/Historical author W. Michael Farmer. J.B. Hogan returns with the grand finale of his long-running serial novella, The Last Rider, and he leads a veritable wagon train of great western fiction from the likes of Will Rogers Medallion-winners Anthony Wood and W. Michael Farmer, Spur Award-winner Richard Prosch, Willa Award-winner Velda Brotherton, Dennis Doty, Kyleigh McCloud, Ben Goheen, James Janke, the winner of our Ozark Creative Writers Dusty Richards Memorial Oxbow Award for Western Short Stories, Nancy Smith Gibson. We've got Cowboy Poetry from Will Rogers Medallion Award-winner Marleen Bussma, J.B. Hogan, Michael Lee, and Karen Devenport, as well as nonfiction articles and columns from Terry Alexander, Paul Bishop, Regina McLemore, Michael Koch, Fred Staff, and many more. So pull up a log, pour yourself a cup of joe from the camp pot, and enjoy our newest issue.

Five royal houses will hear the call to compete in the Trial for the dragon throne. A liar, a soldier, a servant, a thief, and a murderer will answer it. Who will win? Three Dark Crowns meets The Breakfast Club with DRAGONS. When the Emperor dies, the five royal houses of Etrusia attend the Call, where one of their own will be selected to compete for the throne. It is always the oldest child, the one who has been preparing for years to compete in the Trial. But this year is different. This year these five outcasts will answer the call... THE LIAR: Emilia must hide her dark magic or be put to death. THE SOLDIER: Lucian is a warrior who has sworn to never lift a sword again. THE SERVANT: Vespir is a dragon trainer whose skills alone will keep her in the game. THE THIEF: Ajax knows that nothing is free--he must take what he wants. THE MURDERER: Hyperia was born to rule and will stop at nothing to take her throne.

Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.

A powerful collection of photographs and essays by trailblazing women that celebrates Maria Grazia Chiuri's feminine and feminist spirit within the House of Dior. Since being appointed the first female creative director of Dior in 2016, Maria Grazia Chiuri has infused the illustrious fashion brand with a strong current of femi-nism. Her approach is at once refreshing and needed, while still paying homage to the avant-garde ethos that has been at the heart of the house since its founding by Christian Dior in 1947. This beautifully produced volume presents 160 images by leading female photographers such as Nan Goldin, Sarah Moon, Brigitte Niedermair, Coco Capitán, Vanina Sorrenti, Julia Hetta, Katerina Jebb, Zoë Ghertner, and Bettina Rheims. The women creators featured among these pages represent the breadth of style and diversity upheld by the Maison Dior. Thought-provoking quotes and poems from inspirational women--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Linda Nochlin, Claire Fontaine, Judy Chicago, and Tomaso Binga, to name a few--accompany the striking photographs. Showcasing Chiuri's haute couture and ready-to-wear collections from 2017 to 2021, Her Dior captures the creative director's innovations at the house--where, for the past five years, she's reclaimed the narrative creating Dior fashions for women, by women.

Dean Kirkland is a man out of time and an alien on the world of his birth. In the near future, astronaut Kirkland is placed in cryogenic suspension for a thousand-year journey he'll never take and the world he awakes into isn't the one he expected ... but he'll explore it anyway.

Norman Kember, Christian pacifist, kidnapped in Iraq until set free by a Special Forces raid, gives for the first time his own account of his ordeal.