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Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Traditional West

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In the early spring of 2010 several western writers came up with the idea of establishing a new writers' organization devoted exclus...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

When Men Ride Together: Two Very Different Views of The Wild Bunch

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1969: It was the year mankind took a giant step forward with the lunar landing, and it marked the inauguration of Nixon (which, some may ar...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Blackwell's Run

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The latest installment in my series of Blackwell Western short stories from Western Trail Blazer is available now.     http://www.smashwor...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

New review of CROSS ROAD BLUES

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Writer and blues enthusiast Ricky Bush has a nice review of my crime novel Cross Road Blues up at his blogsite:  http://www.bushdogblues.blo...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Western Fictioneers' First Annual (2010) Peacemaker Awards -winners and finalists

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This press release was sent out today by Larry Sweazy, awards chair. I had the privilege of being one of  the judges in this inaugural conte...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Sci Fi Short Story: That Distant Eden

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The passengers and crew of the generational ship Thoreau are finally nearing the end of their centuries-long journey to colonize the un...

Champ Ferguson, Confederate Guerrilla

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Here is a link to an article I wrote a few years ago, in Civil War Times Illustrated , about the famous (and infamous) guerrilla who operate...
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Troy D. Smith
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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