About the Author

Nedler Palaz is a pen-name chosen by the author to reflect the historical western background of the West Texas Checker Board ranch. The author, Nellie Pallagi, has a life time interest in the western genre including books of Zane Grey. Good character development, plenty of action, and story plot are designed to bring back interest in Western lore and storytelling. The two Checker Board novels are a serious concept of the life and times of individuals who fought land takeovers and villians with the grit to protect what they had earned. The Checker Board books and subsequent books in the series relate to Dave Smith, broadening the scope into all of the western territories in 1880. Further adventures ensue in which Dave Smith matures and copes with bounty hunters after a reward on his head.

Ms. Pallagi resides in Granville, Ohio.

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