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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Race in Ferguson, MO... Race in America

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     Troy D. Smith I wear a lot of different hats nowadays. But my main hat is that of historian, specifically historian of race in Amer...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Western Comics Focus

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For about the last year-and-a-half, I've been doing a regular monthly feature at the Western Fictioneers blog called "Western Comi...

Writing About Indians When You're Not One

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For over a year now, I've been writing a semi-regular blog over at Western Fictioneers called "Writing About Indians When You'...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

Remembering Jory Sherman

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Troy D. Smith Last Saturday evening I arrived at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to visit my daughter and her family for a few days. Within m...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

A Schoolboy's War: A WWII Memoir

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Ebenezer Press is delighted to announce the release of A Schoolboy's War  by Derek Couturas. It is a touching memoir about the Briti...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Western Trail Blazer -new releases

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Troy D. Smith We're trying to start 2014 off right over at Western Trail Blazer. In our first month of WTB's new era, we've re...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

FIGHT CARD: hardboiled boxing stories, for a good cause

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The folks who produce the popular FIGHT CARD series- featuring short stories about the sweet science of pugilism, set in the 1930s and ...
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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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