The Will & Buck Series: River of Cattle has won the 2017 Western Fictioneer's Peacemaker Award. River of Cattle is also a finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award: Western Fiction Young Readers.Alice V. Brock learned to love western books as a child when her father brought home a Louis L’Amour paperback western and she fell in love with the cowboys galloping through those pages. Mr. L’Amour’s books, and TV shows like Gunsmoke, Rawhide, and Bonanza of the late ’50s and ’60s, brought the west alive to her. The history of Texas and the old west is full of real stories of those times. Her wish is to bring them alive to kids of today. The old west has not disappeared and Alice brings real people in the history of Texas and the old west to her writing. Real people who lived in history and have descendants who live today.Her chance to see cowboys in action came when she married and moved to her husband’s family ranch in Iola, Texas, where she watches the grazing cattle from her kitchen window. Her grandchildren are the fifth generation to live on the Brock Ranch.To learn more about Alice V. Brock and her writing visit her website at alicevbrock.com. Watch for announcements about the next book in the Will and Buck series, Murder on the Pecos, due out in 2017.Read more about this authorRead less about this author