L’Amour, Burroughs and the forgotten Sackett

Posted by John Small | Aug 18, 2021 | Small Talk

(Editor’s Note: The following column is a condensed version of an essay Mr. Small included in his 2018 collection of pop culture essays, The Beast and Other Secret Histories, which can be purchased at Amazon.com. Several copies are also still available for sale at the Sentinel office in Tishomingo.) When famed western and historical novelist Louis […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

L’Amour, Burroughs and the forgotten Sackett

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