About the author...

Candy Moulton is the author of eleven Western history books including
Everyday Life Among American Indians from 1800 to 1900; Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West from 1840 to 1900; Roadside History of Wyoming; Roadside
History of Nebraska; and Wagon Wheels: A Contemporary Journey on the Oregon Trail.

She is co-editor of Hot Biscuits: Eighteen Stories by Ranch Women and Men, a collection of short fiction. Moulton makes her home near Encampment, Wyoming, where she edits the Western Writers of America Roundup Magazine. She writes regularly for several magazines including True West, Wild West, Persimmon Hill, The Fence Post, and American Cowboy.

She was a writer and associate producer of "Footsteps to the West," the orientation film and other film exhibits at the National Historical Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming that was a Spur Award Finalist for Western Writers of America in 2003. She has appeared in the BBC Documentary "Seven Journeys to the West" produced by Lodestar Productions in England during 2004, and
most recently worked on the Mountain Meadows Massacre segment for the History Channel’s “Investigating History” series produced by Bill Kurtis Productions.

She belongs to a number of organizations including the Nez Percé Trail Foundation, Lewis and Clark Heritage TrailFoundation, Oregon-California Trails Association, and Western Writers of America.