The following letters to the editor appeared in the Cookeville Herald-Citizen, the first on Feb. 12, 2021 and the second on March 8, 2021.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Letters condemning a racist mascot
Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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