James A. Janke

Jim Janke, who lives in rural South Dakota, is fascinated by 19th-Century American history, especially the Old West and the Civil War. He has a huge collection of books on western lore and history and on the Civil War. He travels widely throughout the West, using the locales and stories as inspiration for his Western novels. And he has visited numerous Civil War battlefields, museums, locales, and reenactments. http://jimjanke.com