Kirk Winkler is a journalist and business owner with a passion for the history of the Old West and the people who lived there. He grew up in the shadow of Scottsbluff on the Oregon...view moreKirk Winkler is a journalist and business owner with a passion for the history of the Old West and the people who lived there. He grew up in the shadow of Scottsbluff on the Oregon Trail in Nebraska and Sandia Peak overlooking the Camino Real and the Rio Grande in New Mexico.
He’s lived and worked as a broadcast journalist, manager and consultant in the West and Midwest . He and his wife live in Omaha, where the transcontinental railroad began.
You can read his thoughts about living in and writing about the West and share your own comments at http://writing-the-west.blogspot.com.view less