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Clean fiction about the outdoors and western lifestyle.

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Sam Finden

Grizzly Bear Gamble is now available!

March 10, 2019 by Sam Finden

I’m excited to announce that the third book in my Daniel Foss trilogy, Grizzly Bear Gamble, is now available for purchase! This time around, Daniel is in the scrub country of southwest Colorado and he’s facing off against a deadly grizzly bear. The story has all the hallmarks of a great Daniel Foss adventure: Rough […]

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Check out my ad in Horse & Rider magazine!

October 1, 2017 by Sam Finden

Make sure you check out the October issue of Horse & Rider magazine, and find my ad. On newsstands now. Please let me know if you see it!

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How I Built a Stock Rack on a Flatbed Truck

September 16, 2017 by Sam Finden

What if I had a horse truck, like they did in the not-so-distant past? I had seen the loading ramps at different Forest Service cabins in the mountains, where truckloads of hardy pack animals had descended from the back of two ton grain trucks and pickup beds. What if, instead of having to worry about tipping my big gooseneck rig off the side of a mountain road, I could simply squeak around the tight corners in style?

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Full Curl Optimism

October 19, 2014 by Sam Finden

Beads of sweat ran enthusiastically down Nathan’s face like raindrops on a double-hung window, starting quickly toward the sill of his brow line and heading as gravity dictated, slowed by a weathered screen of stubble, dirt, and yesterday’s grease paint. Here, on the ridge, nature was making him earn anything that came afterward, and requiring […]

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Good and Cheap

June 1, 2014 by Sam Finden

Dissension in the ranks was not an uncommon thing for Cole. From the teachers he’d resented as a youth, the ones that couldn’t “do,” so they taught, to the glad-handing colleagues he’d hated outright as a young executive, champion do-gooders with poorly-cloaked ulterior motives, there had never been much time in Cole’s life for things […]

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