Ash Lingam

Ash Lingam was born near the Ohio River and was raised on a country farm void of neighbors. His only friends were his horse, Sugar, and his four sisters. His grandfather, born in 1886, grew crops and cattle and bought, broke, and sold ponies and horses—he raised the young boy as his own with his mother. As a child, he said his grandad carried an old Colt in his coat pocket. Ash learned the ropes around horses, cattle, and the farm at an early age. Pop, as he called his grandad, taught him how to trap muskrats at eight to stop them draining their ponds. He gave him a double-barreled twelve-gauge shotgun at twelve and taught him how to hunt to put food on the table. By then, he was breaking the ponies and horses, too. His Tennessee Walker never let anyone ride her other than Ash. Together, they searched through the plowed fields in the spring, looking for Miami Indian arrowheads to add to his grandfather’s ample collection. Ash’s family were among the early settlers and pioneers from England and Scotland to America. His ancestry is traceable back to 1776. Still, this relative’s parents were born in America well before then, which places their immigration from England possibly around 1746 or earlier. The date of the first family’s arrival to America was unattainable, but it is estimated that his ancestors immigrated over two hundred fifty years ago. Now, Ash invests his time in his latest endeavor as he writes Westerns and American Pioneer novels. With his vast vault of experiences, he never runs out of sources for a new story. Today, he resides between his home in Barcelona, Spain, and San Francisco, California, near his son. He still trains Police defense and attack dogs as a hobby, surfs and plays golf. To date, Ash Lingam has written approximately 150 novels, short stories, and poetry, of which 110 publications are Westerns currently on sale worldwide.