Born in North Dakota, bestselling western novelist Peter Brandvold has penned over seventy fast-action westerns under his own name and his pen name, Frank Leslie.

[1] He is the author of the .45-Caliber books featuring Cuno Massey as well as the Lou Prophet and Yakima Henry novels.

Recently, with his first young-adult western, LONNIE GENTRY and its successor, The Curse of Skull Canyon, he began publishing with Five Star.

Brandvold also penned 29 entries in the long-running Longarm series published by Berkley Books, as well as four books in the Trailsman series published by Signet.

He went to school at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and graduated there with a B.A.