Troy D. Smith
267 Wolf Pass Lane
Sparta, Tennessee 38583
(931) 935-3010
Graduated summa cum laude May 2004.
3.97 GPA
SCHOLARSHIPS
AND AWARDS:
Francis Savage Taylor Scholarship -English 2002.
Marshall & Thelma Bertram Scholarship -College of Liberal Arts.
2002-2003.
B.F. Jones Endowed Scholarship- History, 2002-2003.
Patrick Reagan Military History Award. 2002.
The College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Liberal Arts, 2003.
Colonial Dames of Tennessee History Award, 2003.
Marion Langlois Endowed Scholarship –History, 2003.
HONORS
SOCIETIES:
Sigma Tau Delta (English) Chapter President, 2003-4
Alpha Mu Gamma (Foreign Language) Chapter Vice-President, 2001-2
Omicron Delta Kappa Chapter
Secretary, 2003-4
Phi Kappa Phi
PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
“Smoked Yankees in the Crossfire: The Black Experience in the
Spanish-American War.”
-Mid-South Phi Alpha Theta Conference,
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Tennessee Technological University, Dept. of Extended Education:
Instructor, Creative Writing –Spring 2003
PROFESSIONAL
(WRITING)
Active member,
Western Writers of America, Inc.
AWARDS:
Spur Award Winner, 2001. Best Original Paperback Novel- Bound for the Promise-Land.
Spur Award Finalist,
2001. Best First Novel (Medicine Pipe Bearer Award)- Bound for the Promise-Land.
Spur Award Finalist, 1998. Best Short Nonfiction- "Bigfoot Wallace- Texas-Sized Legend," Wild West.
QUOTES FROM
REVIEWS:
“Troy Smith creates a classic from the first chapter…Bound for the Promise-Land' is a magnificent novel that I predict will become a classic.” Doris R. Meredith. Amarillo Globe-News, April 8, 2001.
“As a white man I know that I can never fully comprehend the nature of a black man’s experiences in the past as well as the present, but because of Bound for the Promise-Land I feel that I am closer than I have ever been before. For that reason alone, this is a valuable book. But more than that it is an engaging book…This is a book that everyone should read.” George Glenn. The Shootist, March-April 2001.
“Smith uses humor and extraordinary characterization [in Caleb’s Price]…A wonderful book with wonderful characters.” Doris R. Meredith. Roundup Magazine, December 2001.
BOOKS
(fiction):
THE STEALING MOON, AND OTHER STORIES Writer’s Club Press, 2003
THE TRAIL BROTHERS Writer’s Club Press, 2003
GOOD REBEL SOIL: THE CHAMP FERGUSON STORY Writer’s Club Press, 2002
CALEB'S PRICE Writer's Club Press, 2001.
BOUND FOR THE PROMISE-LAND Writer's Club Press, 2000.
"Sundown" Lone Star Law, Robert J. Randisi, ed. Pocket Books, 2005.
“The Big Die-Up” Westward, Dale Walker, ed. Forge Books 2003.
“Ned Christie’s Fort” Black Hats, Robert J. Randisi, ed. Berkley Publishing Group, 2003.
“The Sellers” Boot Hill, Robert J. Randisi, ed. Forge Books 2002.
"The Purification of Jim Barnes" American West, Loren Estleman, ed. Forge Books 2001.
MAGAZINE
ARTICLES, NONFICTION:
"Champ Ferguson: Don't You Beg and Don't You Dodge" Civil War Times Illustrated December 2001.
"Charles Goodnight's Cattle Days" Wild West June 2000.
"Humpy Jackson" Wild West April 1999.
"Thomas Sharp Spencer- Tennessee Long Hunter" Muzzleloader Nov-Dec. 1998.
"Ben Thompson- Texas Gambler and Gunfighter" Wild West April 1998.
"Bigfoot Wallace- Texas-Sized Legend" Wild West Aug. 1997.
ONLINE JOURNALS, NONFICTION:
“Black and Red: African Americans and Native Americans in the South” SouthernHistory.net May 2003.
“For the Sake of the Children: The Nashville Child Labor Conference of 1907” SouthernHistory.net May
2003.
“Stan Lee –King of the Western Comics –and More” American
Western
Magazine/readthewest.com Feb. 2003.
“Western Comics –Then and Now” American Western
Magazine/readthewest.com Feb. 2003.
“Mixed Smoke Signals: Changing Perceptions of Native
Americans” American Western
Magazine/readthewest.com Jan. 2003.
"Dark West-the Western Films of Anthony Mann and Jimmy
Stewart" American Western
Magazine/readthewest.com Sept 2000.
SHORT FICTION,
MAGAZINES:
“The Windigo” The Shootist March/April 2002
“Total War” The Shootist January/February 2002.
"The Confessions of Little Big Man" American Western Magazine/readthewest.com September 2001.
"The People In Yonder" The Shootist September/October 2001.
"The Galvanized Yankees of Company D" The Shootist July/August 2001.
"The Stealing Moon" The Shootist March/April 2001.
"Judah King" The Shootist July/Aug 2000.
"His Face to His Enemies" American Western Magazine/readthewest.com Aug 2000.
"Becoming American" Storyteller Mar-June 2000.
“The Divided Prey” The Shootist May/June 2000.
"Casualties" American Western Magazine/readthewest.com, May 2000.
"The Hunter’s Snare" Muzzleloader May-June 2000.
"Where the Fire Is Never Quenched" American Western Magazine/readthewest.com , April 2000.
"The File Closer" The Shootist Mar/Apr 2000.
"The Final Nail" The Shootist Mar/Apr 2000.
"God Bless Our Home" The Shootist Mar/Apr 2000.
"Painted Rock" Storyteller Jan-March 2000.
"Sergeant Mann and the Horse Thieves" The Shootist Jan/Feb 2000.
"The Better Part of Valor" Western Digest Nov. 1999.
"Sergeant Mann" The Shootist Nov-Dec 1999.
"Buffalo Talker" The Shootist Sept-Oct 1999.
"Monterey" Storyteller July-Sept 1999.
"Mister Maitlin" The Shootist July-Aug 1999.
"The Trail Brothers" Western Digest May 1999.
"Azimpi" The Storyteller Mar-June 1999. Reprinted in The Shootist, Jan/Feb 2000.
"The Blackwell Claim" Western Digest Mar-April 1999.
"Romulus Jones" The Shootist Mar-April 1999.
"Restless for the Hunt" Storyteller Jan-Mar. 1999.
"The Day They Got Lance Burns" Western Digest Sept-Oct 1998.
"Amber" Minas-Tirith Evening Star Spring 1997.
"Mourning Glory" Louis L’Amour Western Magazine Nov. 1995
POETRY:
"This Is the Lonesome" Western Digest Sept-Oct 1999.
"Tatanka Iyotake" Storyteller Oct-Dec. 1998.
"Pioneer" Storyteller July-Sept. 1998.
"Buffalo Soldier’s Pride" Storyteller Apr-June 1998. Reprinted in The Shootist, May/June 2000.
"I Am Strong Bear" Storyteller Jan-Mar. 1998.