CLUTCH 1900 by Craig Rodgers

Publication Date: May 28, 2024

Old cowboy Clutch Haggardy waits in a hotel lobby for his biographer. The Wild West rages around him, and Clutch bears, and has borne, witness to tragedy, violence, heartbreak - but he sits, and he drinks, and he waits.

In the present, Ray lives only to collect all the Cowboy Clutch yarns, printed in penny stories long-lost to time. In his quest, he finds fire, a yawning basement, a mysterious paper-airplane-making woman, and who might be the man old Clutch waited for decades ago.

This tightly wound, terse novel by Craig Rodgers examines the mystery of authorship, the obsession of collectors, and the eternal, maddening hope of history, real or imagined.