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Gary McCarthy
Gary McCarthy is the author of fifteen published American historical and thirty-four westerns novels. In 1993, his “THE GILA RIVER” won the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award as the best historical paperback novel of that year and “RIVER THUNDER” won the 2009 Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Best Audio Book. His 1991 “RUSSIAN RIVER” California historical novel and 2003 Arizona Western novel “RESTITUTION” were Spur Award Finalists. In 2019, he was awarded the Life Achievement Peacemaker Award by the Western Fictioneers.
McCarthy received widespread recognition for his extremely well researched novels relating to our NATIONAL PARKS and his highly popular OUR AMERICAN WEST VOL. 1-4 SERIES. He is the creator of the THE DERBY MAN and the THE HORSEMEN SERIES. McCarthy has also worked on other successful series including RIVERS WEST, GUNSMOKE, RAILS WEST and the longest running series of them all…LONGARM. He has also written three Script Stories based on his New York Published novels.
The author is well suited to writing about the American West; he grew up with horses and received a B.S. degree in Animal Science and an M.S. in Economics from the University of Nevada. Before becoming a full time novelist, McCarthy was employed as an economist. He is very interested in Native American cultures, especially the Navajo, Hualapai and Hopi and historical preservation of southwestern western archaeological sites. McCarthy had been president of two Rotary Clubs and served on many community boards.
Gary McCarthy has over five million books in print and resides in Arizona with his wife, Jane. He enjoys hiking and horseback riding in the Grand Canyon Rim Country when he is not traveling the Southwest in search of new stories upon which to base his next novel.
Books By Gary McCarthy
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Maddie O'Brien's Christmas Donkeys: A Teen Holiday Western
Wolfpack PublishingHEE-haw. HEE-haw. HEE-haw... Growing up on a small ranch without a mother hasn’t been all that easy for only child Maddie O’Brien. Her father, scar...
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Maddie O'Brien's Wild Turkeys: A Teen Holiday Western
Wise Wolf BooksGobble…gobble! Gobble…gobble! After days of rain and storms, Maddie O’Brien is restless to venture out into the forest. Little did she know that wh...
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Blood Brothers
Wolfpack PublishingNo place in the west is as wild and untamed as the boomtown of Virginia City, gold and silver seem to be pouring into the streets, and you can earn...
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Yosemite Thunder (National Parks Book #4)
Wolfpack PublishingBefore man, there was a place of breathtaking beauty... a land forever wild, forever free. The Indians called it Ahwahnee. We know it as YOSEMITE. ...
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Yellowstone Thunder (National Parks Book #3)
Wolfpack PublishingYELLOWSTONE THUNDER is a grand historical novel about a young California woman and her Chumash Indian friend who flee for their lives having no ide...
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