Candy Vyvey Moulton is an American writer, editor, and documentary producer who specializes in the history of the American West. Born in 1955 and raised on a Wyoming ranch, she still lives in Encampment, Wyoming, where she has built a career across newspaper reporting, magazine editing, book authorship, and film production.
Her writer's reference books are familiar to historical fiction writers working with the American frontier. The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West from 1840 to 1900 (Writer's Digest Books, 1999) and Everyday Life Among American Indians from 1800 to 1900 (Writer's Digest Books, 2001) walk novelists, screenwriters, and game designers through the practical material of frontier life: food, clothing, transportation, communication, money, kinship, ceremony, and the day-to-day routines that fiction writers tend to get wrong. The National Federation of Press Women named each book a first-place winner in its category.
She has written more than fifteen books of Western history, including Steamboat: Legendary Bucking Horse (with Flossie Moulton), Legacy of the Tetons, Roadside History of Wyoming, Wagon Wheels: A Contemporary Journey on the Oregon Trail, Chief Joseph: Guardian of the People, and Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux. Chief Joseph won the Spur Award from Western Writers of America in 2006. Valentine T. McGillycuddy won the Caroline Bancroft Award from the Denver Public Library in 2011.
Moulton edits Roundup magazine, the publication of Western Writers of America, and the Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association Journal. She is a contributing editor to True West magazine. As co-owner of Wood Mountain Productions she has written, produced, and acted in several documentary films, including Footsteps to the West, a Spur Award finalist. She served on the board of Western Writers of America and was named Communicator of Achievement by the Wyoming Media Professionals.
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