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Friday, September 15, 2017

Indian Civil War, Part Two

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If you saw my guest post at Western Fictioneers last month about the Civil War in Indian Territory, Part Two  is up now.
Sunday, September 3, 2017

Red, White, and Black: Intersections of American Music

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On Monday, August 21 st (2017), I appeared as a guest on WTTU’s radio program Teacher on the Radio , hosted for many years now by my frien...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

The Civil War in Indian Territory

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Once a month I blog at the Western Fictioneers site. This month I begin a multi-part series on the Civil War in Indian Territory, which was...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Confederate Monuments and History

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Something I've been hearing: "First they are taking down statues... what next, are they gonna burn books? You shouldn't erase...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

My History of History

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I started college when I was 32, after five years of having historical fiction and nonfiction published in various magazines and books, suc...
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U.S. Marshals and Nineteenth Century Violence

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Head over to the Western Fictioneers blog - HERE  -to check out my guest blog. It deals with both the American West (Especially Indian Terr...
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Working: A poem for May Day in the Upper Cumberland

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WORKING Troy D. Smith Coal dust settles on me like black snow Choking in the darkness Sweat and soot making grime Soaking ...
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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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