The Elk-Dog Heritage

Don Coldsmith is an award-winning author of twenty-nine books in the Spanish Bit Series, including "Medicine Hat" & "The Lost Band: A Novel", also published by the University of Oklahoma Press. 050 Don Coldsmith was an American author of Western fiction. He wrote a series entitled the Spanish Bit Saga wherein he told stories from the Native show more Indian's point of view. Coldsmith also wrote hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. Born on February 28, 1926, he was also a medical doctor and a cattle rancher in Kansas. He was a past president of Western Writers of America. In fact, after attending one of these conferences, he suffered a stroke on June 20, 2009 and died on the 25th at The University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. (Bowker Author Biography) show less