Red Johnson, published Western author, Non-Fiction & Fiction Novels, Gold Country Times columnist, and reporter, aka Martin Johnson, has been on staff since March 2004. Martin has 30 years of entrepreneur experience. Also known as California Red Johnson, S.A.S.S. #34036, Cowboy Mounted Shooter, 2nd Place World Champion, Senior Division 1. Martin's column Legends of the Gold Country chronicles factual accounts of life in Calaveras County and surrounding areas before and during the gold rush era. He has appeared before local Rotary clubs to talk about his column and share tales of this colorful gold rush history. Martin brings this era alive again in his column 'Legends of the Gold Country' in the Gold Country Times newspaper. Editor's Note: Author Red Johnson has published his newest book, Murder in the Gold Country, Hacalitas Gang's Raid on Rancheria. Visit www.redjohnsonenterprises.com to order his books online. Contact Red Johnson at martin2693@sbcglobal.net

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Novelist Red Johnson grew up at Donner Lake, in the high Sierra, before its discovery by millions as California's great vacation escape. His writings are fiction, but his family's western roots are not. They include a Montana rancher, a Tipton, Iowa blacksmith, a judge who rode with General Sherman in the Iowa Brigade during the Civil War and a gunfighter whose name was not spoken in the family for fifty years. His gun was for hire to the highest bidder.

Red lives with his wife, MaeBeth, in California. Read about the author and you will get a clue as to why an 89-year old Fresno, California man says Western Seed is the best western he has ever read and he has been reading westerns all his life. Another testimonial: "Red Johnson writes fiction western novels that bring the characters alive, and I could not put the book down". Another woman discovered Red's home number and called, telling Red's wife: "Your husband kept me up all night, reading Western Seed of course!  I must be first to have his next novel". 

To visit the author's website and for excerpts from his new books, click on this url: www.redjohnsonenterprises.com

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