Max Evans is the author of over thirty works of fiction and nonfiction. He is the recipient of the Spur, Wrangler, and Owen Wister awards, and he is the subject of the biography Ol’ Max Evans: The First Thousand Years and a documentary film of the same title. Evans has made his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for over fifty years.

Robert Nott is the author of The Films of Randolph Scott; Last of the Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy; and The Films of Budd Boetticher. He is also the coauthor, with Max Evans, of Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends (UNM Press). He has been a reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican for the last twenty-five years.