Michael Chandler

A professional Old West stunt gunfighter, Michael Chandler has performed with the Great American Wild West Show at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. He is the recipient of the All Around Gunfighter trophy belt buckle for his excellence in producing, writing, casting, set design, and acting in gunfight recreations, including the O.K. Corral gunfights staged in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, where Doc Holliday eventually died.

On eight occasions he hired on with working wranglers to drive cattle between Wyoming and Montana, living the life he depicts within his western adventure novels. He is an Active Member of Western Writers of America.

His office and mountain home are virtual museums of western artifacts and memorabilia. Fourteen restored covered wagons, loaded with the paraphernalia a pioneer family would have hauled west, are circled within his Colorado mountain property. Visiting the Chandlers is a step back into the time of Indians and gunfighters, gamblers and saloon girls, gold strikes and train robberies. Best of all, you might meet Michele Chandler who is the real-life Josephine, one of the main characters within Michael's novels.

Michael is a former Assistant Chief of Police for the Aspen (Colorado) Police Department. He is the president of The Chandler Marketing Company and has won more than forty Silver Microphone Awards for outstanding advertising, including Best Copywriting in the United States. His marketing strategies have been featured on ABC World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News.