by Kirby Jonas | Reflections
Bear Canyon and Johnny West In 1967 we moved out to a house in Bear Canyon, about seven miles outside of Bozeman. The house was built by my father and our friend, Darwin Burnett, who was a school teacher at the time. He had gotten a job in Deer Lodge, Montana, and...
by Kirby Jonas | Reflections
Interview with Kirby Jonas, Part 2 D: What are the two new books you’ve just put out, and when do they take place? KJ: Russet, a book about a high school football player which takes place in 1955 in my hometown of Shelley, and Lockdown for Lockwood, my first...
by Kirby Jonas | Reflections
INTERVIEW BY DEVIN DULAINE He looks like a character out of his own novels. In fact, he portrays two of them in photographs, Matthew Morgan, on the cover of his novel Drygulch to Destiny, and Sheriff Coal Savage, on the covers of his crime and family drama series set...
by Kirby Jonas | Reflections
Somehow it came. I don’t know how it happened, and I say this every year: How did summer go away and fall come to Idaho? Now my immediate concern is to make sure you know I’m not bemoaning the arrival of autumn–although the nights are going to drop...
by Kirby Jonas | Reflections
A Commentary on-Horsemanship for Writers and Readers Do your research–THEN write! It doesn’t take very long writing Westerns to give away the fact that you are (or are NOT) well-versed in horse lingo and riding. Don’t start on the wrong foot, as so...
by Kirby Jonas | Reflections
I AM A ROCK — a late-night musing I get the question often: “How do you handle being alone for twelve hours?” They’re asking, of course, about my work as a security guard contracted out to FPS (Federal Protective Services.) Well, let me tell...
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