Frankie McWhorter grew up in the Texas Panhandle town of Memphis and has managed a seventeen-section ranch in the Panhandle. In addition to fiddling and cowboying, his books include
Horse Fixin': Forty Years of Working with Problem Horses, as told to John R. Erickson, and
Play It Lazy: The Bob Wills Fiddle Legacy, with Lanny Fiel.
John R. Erickson lives with his wife Kris and their children on their M-Cross Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, "nine-sections of the most gorgeous cowboy country on God's earth," where he ranches and writes. He is the author of the Hank the Cowdog series.