"Wild Times & True Tales is a collection of short stories and essays about the High Plains of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. Fast-paced and entertaining, Matt Vincent's first book takes the reader on a backroad tour of an overlooked and underappreciated part of the Great Plains where the buffalo once roamed- and where the deer and antelope still play. With a penchant for descriptive writing, the author puts us inside the bitter conflicts involving the U.S. military and the Plains Indians and introduces us to train robberies, locust swarms and wheat fires. And along the way we learn just how tough the pioneers must have been in order to settle the American West." provided by the publisher