More Cat Tales of the Old West: Triumphs, Trials & Trivia of Frontier Felines - Paperback

by Preston Lewis (Author), Harriet Kocher Lewis (Editor)

In More Cat Tales of the Old West: Triumphs, Trials & Trivia of Frontier Felines, two-time Spur Award recipient Preston Lewis pulls together another amusing and eclectic collection of articles from western newspaper reports on frontier cats. In the sequel to his award-winning Cat Tales of the Old West: Poems, Puns & Perspectives on Frontier Felines, Lewis provides another engaging look at frontier felines from the perspective of pioneering times.

The author in More Cat Tales of the Old West examines cats as frontier fighters, homebodies, workers, miners, criminals, and actors with enough colorful period anecdotes to satisfy both the cat lover and the cat hater. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Chris Enss, More Cat Tales of the Old West provides an educational perspective on Old West history.

An authority on cats in the Old West, Lewis has published articles on the subject in periodicals such as Wild West and Journal of the Wild West History Association. His first book on the topic, Cat Tales of the Old West received a Will Rogers Bronze Medallion Award for written western humor. In 2024 More Cat Tales of the Old West was named a Spur Finalist by Western Writers of America. More Cat Tales of the Old West is catnip for feline fans and frontier aficionados interested in frontier history with a twist of the cat's tail.