John Hafnor’s Lakota Cowboy is winner of a gold medal in the Will Rogers Western Lit Awards, and follows a series of non-fiction titles. He launched the "strange history" book phenomenon in 1982 with Black Hills Believables. Later came Strange But True America, Strange But True Colorado, Trekking the Last Badland, and the German-language Wahres aus dem Wilden Westen. Hafnor lives in the Colorado, splitting time between Denver and a writer’s cabin on a high mountain lake. He is single and has three grown sons.