Welcome to Saddlebag Dispatches, Where Stories Of The West Come To Be Told. If you like stories of the Old West, you’ve come to the right place. But we don’t just tell stories of the Old West. If your tale takes place west of Mississippi and has the spirit of the Old West in it-even if it involves pickups and highways instead of horses and dusty trails-we want to see it. As long as it speaks to rugged individualism and a frontier way of thinking, it belongs here. In addition to fiction, we publish the best nonfiction about the west as well as poetry, interviews and…well, pretty much anything to do with the west. Are you getting the idea we like things western? In each issue, you’ll find news about personalities, events, and the latest tales from a variety of authors, many of whom New York has thumbed its nose at. But that doesn’t mean they’re low quality. We all know what New York is like, right? We have our standards, and they’re in good hands with our editor-in-chief Dusty Richards, a two-time Spur Award winner. So c'mon in and sit a spell. We think you’ll like it here.