Robert D. McKee

Contention and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier through the early 1900s and feature exciting new characters who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to introspective historical dramas set in the American West, readers will discover the amount of courage and tenacity it took to survive the tumultuous frontier. In this anthology, you'll enjoy discovering stories by New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors such as Loren D. Estleman, Johnny D. Boggs, Michael Zimmer, Max McCoy, John D. Nesbitt, Preston Lewis, Rod Miller, W. Michael Farmer, Greg Hunt, Bill Brooks, Tim Champlin, Robert D. McKee, Michael R. Ritt, Kathleen Morris, Vonn McKee, John Neely Davis, and Marcia Gaye"---

I was pleased my story "Running Iron" was selected for inclusion in Five Star/Cengage's fine collection of short Western fiction

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**** I'm very pleased to announce that my story "Running Iron" has been selected as a Finalist for a Will Rogers Medallion Award. Winners will be announced in February 2021 ****

Gypsy Rock

WINNER of the Will Rogers Bronze Medallion for 2019

A Finalist for the Western Fictioneer's Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel.

Number two in the Billy Young and Hugo Dorling series. There are bad things afoot in central Wyoming in 1892.

Killing Blood

A Finalist for the Western Fictioneer's Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel.

The first book in the Billy Young Hugo Dorling Series. After his brother is murdered, nineteen-year-old Billy learns the hard lessons of revenge and death.

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Out of the Darkness

Also a Finalist for the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel, Out of the Darkness looks at life in a small Wyoming town at the turn of the last century. Young attorney Micah McConners discovers that not everyone is ready for the problems and the wonders that the 20th Century promises.

My Story

Robert D. McKee's short stories have appeared in more than twenty commercial and literary publications. One of his stories was selected for the prestigious anthology Best American Mystery Stories ,  edited by Otto Penzler with the assistance that year of visiting editor Michael Connelly. Bob is also a recipient of many national and regional awards.
When not at his computer writing, Bob can be found rummaging through antique stores in search of vintage fountain pens or roaming the back roads of Wyoming and Colorado.

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Dakota Trails

Ex-Cavalryman Neil Bancroft hires out to escort the conniving Katie Burke into the Black Hills, but after being shot, nearly hanged,  and getting in gunfights with thieves and murderers, he realizes he has gotten way more than he bargained for.

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Killing Blood

First in the Billy Young and Hugo Dorling series.  Billy is hunting his brother's killer and seeks the help of Deputy Marshal Dorling.

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Out of the Darkness

A tale of violence, justice, and forbidden love in the last four months of the nineteenth century and the first day of the twentieth.

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Gypsy Rock

Second in the Billy Young and Hugo Dorling series. Billy and Hugo are hunting a murderer and trying to prevent a massacre.
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Contention

Contention and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier.

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Best American Mystery Stories

I was pleased to have my story “The Confession” selected to appear in this edition of Best American Mystery Stories

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