Welcome to Saddlebag Dispatches, Where Stories Of The West Come To Be Told.For Autumn, you’ll find short fiction from Darrel Sparkman, Gordon Bonnet, Cly Boehs, Spur Award-winner Richard Prosch, Staci Troilo, and Velda Brotherton, as well as the first section of Michael and D.A. Frizell’s exciting new serial graphic novel, Bender. We’ve also got great columns from legendary western author Dusty Richards, Rod Miller, poet Chet Dixon, Terry Alexander, New York Times/USA Today bestselling romance writer Linda Broday, and historian John J. Dwyer. Last but not least, you’ll find an article on Cowboy Mounted Shooting by George “Clay” Mitchell, a photo spread on Mexico’s Day of the Dead by John T. Biggs, results from the 2016 National Championship Chuckwagon Races in Clinton, Arkansas, a spotlight on two fresh new voices in Western fiction—Tiffany Podz and Ford Kirkland—and our cover feature profiling legendary Western romance author and five time RITA-award winner Jodi Thomas.