
Matthew P. Mayo is the award-winning author of thirty-plus books and dozens more short stories. His novel, Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival, won the prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, as well as the Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction by the Western Writers of America, the Peacemaker Award for Best YA Novel by Western Fictioneers, and the Willa Literary Award for Best Historical Fiction by Women Writing the West. His novel, Tucker’s Reckoning, won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, and his short stories have been Spur Award and Peacemaker Award finalists. He has been an on-screen expert for a popular TV series about lost treasure in the American West, and is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. Matthew and his wife, photographer and videographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, along with their indefatigable pup, Miss Tess, run Gritty Press (www.GrittyPress.com) and live in the deepest, forested wildlands of Maine. When they’re not battling belligerent bigfoots and foiling the filching ways of hordes of gray squirrels, they rove the byways of North America in search of hot coffee, tasty whiskey, and high adventure. Be sure to rummage at Matthew’s website (www.MatthewMayo.com) for updates about spurious projects, outrageous outings, and a few surprises, too….
Series
Books

Myths and Mysteries of New Hampshire
True Stories Of The Unsolved And Unexplained
2014

Double-Cross Ranch
2014

Tucker's Reckoning
2012

Stranded
A Story of Frontier Survival
2017

Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England
2010

Dead Man's Ranch
2012

The Too-Late Trail
2021

The Hunted
2013

Timberline
2018

Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting
2012

Guns of the Greenhorn
2021

Haunted Old West
Phantom Cowboys, Spirit-Filled Saloons, Mystical Mine Camps, and Spectral Indians
2012

Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West
2010

Shotgun Charlie
2015