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Thursday, April 28, 2011

WARLOCK: A Neglected Western Classic

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Lately I have been posting several articles I wrote in the late 1990s. This week I am sharing a piece about the 1959 Edward Dmytryk Western...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

The Top Ten Greatest Western Comics

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I recently polled a group of published Western authors and/or  comics professionals for their choices of best Western comics characters and ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Dark West: The Western Films of Anthony Mann and Jimmy Stewart

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A couple of weeks ago I found a stash of old articles I wrote in the late 90s. Last time I posted an interview with Stan Lee: today I am pos...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Blackwells

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My stories about the Blackwell family seem to be the most popular of my short-story ebooks. To make it easier for anyone who has enjoyed one...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Freedom is a place in your soul

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I've written several books -I just had a new one come out last month, a mystery called Cross Road Blues. One of my proudest achievements...
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Chance to help out a little

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My friend Charles Whipple, aka Chuck Tyrell, who has lived in Japan for years, is donating his royalties from sales of his collection of Jap...

Ebook Short Stories from Western Trail Blazer

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Western Trail Blazer has released six of my short stories (two of them also horror stories) in their "dime novel" ebook format....
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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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