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Celeste Ertelt
The Lake Region Public Library will be starting up their book club with Abercrombie Trail on Feb 3 via Zoom. Please see library staff for books and details. Also a new book display entitled Books to Inspire a New You in 2021.
Out of Hounds by Rita Mae Brown (Adult Fiction). Spring is peeking through the frost in Virginia, and though the hunting season is coming to a close, the foxes seem determined to put the members of the Jefferson Hunt Club through their paces. Sister and her friends are enjoying some of the best chases they’ve had all season when the fun is cut short by the theft of Crawford Howard’s treasured Sir Alfred Munnings painting of a woman in hunting attire riding sidesaddle. When another painting goes missing five days later, also a Munnings, also of a woman hunting sidesaddle, Sister Jane knows it’s no coincidence.
The Dead of Winter
According to the National Park Service, either Northwestern Photographic Company owner George E. Trager of Chadron, Nebraska, or his employee, Clarence G. Moorledge of Pine Ridge Agency, had an Indian Infantry Company in winter uniforms pause from their training possibly as Indian police to have their photo taken in the winter of 1890. Moorledge later became the first photographer to document the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, December 29, 1890.
– Photo Courtesy of the National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, LIBI 00312 1095
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Robert M. Utley (right), author of True West’s best Western history nonfiction book of 2020, The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas (University of Nebraska Press), has been a Western history hero and mentor to fellow historian Paul Andrew Hutton (left) since their first meeting at Indiana University in 1977. Utley’s The Last Sovereigns is excerpted on pages 18-25, followed by Hutton’s profile of his mentor on pages 26-27.
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