Bookslingers: A Western Book Club

Read off into the sunset with Bookslingers: A Western Book Club.  Explore the west with traditional westerns, as well as non-fiction, and modern western tales.  Read beloved classics and meet the new authors writing in the West.

This month were are reading books by author Joseph M. Marshall.  Joseph M. Marshall III was a Sicangu Lakota, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. He was raised in a traditional native household by his maternal grandparents, where he learned the ancient tradition of oral storytelling, and his first language is Lakota.  He was a practitioner of primitive Lakota archery, having learned from his maternal grandfather the art of handcrafting bows and arrows, and he was a specialist in wilderness survival. Marshall was the author of more than twenty books.  Honors for Marshall’s work include the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center, four Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, the Creative Nonfiction Award from the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association, and the 2009 Best American Indian Fiction Writer Award from True West magazine.