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The Blog of Author and Historian Troy D. Smith

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Southern Culture, Southern Honor, Southern Fatalism

Troy D. Smith Author's note: I have not posted anything on this blog in over a year... because last year was unbelievably busy fo...

Nineteenth Century Marshals and Violence

Troy D. Smith Being a peace officer is, well, not always peaceful. It is a dangerous profession. Being in the federal marshals service h...

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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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